NOT FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, FKA Green 

Tree Servicing LLC; FEDERAL 

NATIONAL MORTGAGE 

ASSOCIATION, 

Plaintiffs-counterdefendants-Appellees, 

 v. 

TALASERA AND VICANTO 

HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION; 

NEVADA ASSOCIATION SERVICES, 

INC., 

Defendants, 

and 

DUTCH OVEN COURT TRUST, 

Defendant-counter-claimantAppellant.

No. 20-15066 

D.C. No. 

2:16-cv-02906-JAD-NJK 

MEMORANDUM*

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the District of Nevada

Jennifer A. Dorsey, District Judge, Presiding

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent 

except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

FILED

APR 30 2021

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
2 

Submitted April 13, 2021**

Pasadena, California

Before: PAEZ and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges, and GLEASON,*** District Judge.

Defendant-Appellant Dutch Oven Court Trust (“Dutch Oven”) attempts to 

appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Plaintiffs-Appellees 

Ditech Financial LLC and Fannie Mae in their quiet-title action. However, because 

Dutch Oven failed to timely file a valid notice of appeal with the district court, we 

lack jurisdiction over this appeal. We therefore dismiss the appeal pursuant to 

Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 3(c) and 4(a). 

A valid notice of appeal must “specify the party or parties taking the appeal 

by naming each one in the caption or body of the notice” and “designate the 

judgment, order, or part thereof being appealed.” Fed. R. App. P. 3(c)(1)(A)–(B).

“[T]he notice of appeal required by Rule 3 must be filed with the district clerk 

within 30 days after entry of the judgment or order appealed from.” Fed. R. App. 

P. 4(a)(1)(A). In this case, the district court entered judgment on December 13, 

2019. The 30th day from entry of judgment was Sunday, January 12, 2020. By

** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision 

without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

*** The Honorable Sharon L. Gleason, United States District Judge for 

the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.
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rule, the deadline extended to Monday, January 13, 2020. See Fed. R. App. P. 

26(a)(1)(C).

On January 13, 2020, Dutch Oven filed a putative notice of appeal that failed 

to comply with the content requirements of Rule 3(c). The putative notice listed the 

wrong plaintiffs, the wrong defendants, the wrong case number, the wrong 

judgment, and the wrong judgment date. While a “technical error in a notice of 

appeal does not deprive [this court] of jurisdiction,” we have reiterated the 

Supreme Court’s admonition that “failure to name a party in a notice of appeal is 

more than excusable informality, but rather, ‘it constitutes a failure of that party to 

appeal.’” Le v. Astrue, 558 F.3d 1019, 1022–23 (9th Cir. 2009) (citation omitted)

(quoting Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co., 487 U.S. 312, 314 (1988)). We decline 

Dutch Oven’s invitation to treat these deficiencies as technical errors.

Dutch Oven contends that its amended notice of appeal cured any defects in 

the initial, defective notice of appeal. The amended notice, however, was filed on 

January 14, 2020 and was, therefore, untimely under Rule 4(a).1“[B]ecause the 

time constraints outlined in Rule 4(a) implement the limitations Congress imposed 

on this Court by statute, [this Court] must dismiss civil appeals that are untimely 

1 Dutch Oven did not file a motion for extension of time to file the notice of appeal 

as authorized by Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5).
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for lack of jurisdiction . . . .” United States v. Sadler, 480 F.3d 932, 937 (9th Cir. 

2007). Thus, we dismiss Dutch Oven’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction.2

DISMISSED.

2 Plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss, Dkt. No. 32, is denied as moot.