NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals 

for the Federal Circuit ______________________

KIM HYDE RHODES,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY 

WINWARD, STATE OF UTAH,

Defendants-Appellees

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2024-1224

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00077-DN, Senior Judge David Nuffer.

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KIM HYDE RHODES,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

IDAHO HEALTH WELFARE, MAGISTRATE JUDGE

ROBERT CROWLEY, JIM MASON, Casa 7, JUDGE

STEVAN THOMPSON,

Defendants-Appellees

______________________

2024-1225

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00078-DN, Senior Judge David Nuffer.

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KIM HYDE RHODES,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

TED BARNEY, KAYLA CORPENBARGER,

Defendants-Appellees

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2024-1226

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00079-DN, Senior Judge David Nuffer.

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KIM HYDE RHODES,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY 

WINWARD,

Defendants-Appellees

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2024-1227

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00083-DN, Senior Judge David Nuffer.

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KIM HYDE RHODES,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

ROBERT HORN, JEFFREY C. WILCOX, 

WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, 

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, US DOJ,

Defendants-Appellees

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2024-1228

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00084-DN, Senior Judge David Nuffer.

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KIM HYDE RHODES,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY 

WINWARD, STATE OF UTAH,

Defendants-Appellees

______________________

2024-1229

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00085-DN, Senior Judge David Nuffer.

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PER CURIAM.

O R D E R

The court has received no response to its December 28, 

2023 order regarding whether these appeals should be dismissed or transferred. We now dismiss.

In the complaint underlying Appeal No. 2024-1228,

Kim Hyde Rhodes sought $500,000 in damages from, 

among others, United States agencies. Her other complaints giving rise to these appeals sought relief in connection with domestic matters against state entities or 

individuals. The district court dismissed the cases. Ms. 

Hyde Rhodes filed a notice of appeal for each case. The 

notices were then transmitted to the United States Court 

of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and Ms. Hyde Rhodes subsequently filed a second set of appeals directed to this 

court.*

These appeals do not fall within the limited authority 

that Congress granted this court to review decisions of federal district courts. That jurisdiction generally extends to 

cases arising under the patent laws, see 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1295(a)(1); civil actions on review to the district court 

from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, see

§ 1295(a)(4)(C); and civil actions involving certain damages 

claims against the United States “not exceeding $10,000 in 

amount,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2), see 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(2); 

* The Tenth Circuit dismissed the appeals for lack of 

prosecution and issued mandate on February 9, 2024.

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28 U.S.C. § 1292(c)(1). None of Ms. Hyde Rhodes’s cases 

falls within that limited jurisdiction. 

When this court lacks jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1631

provides that the court may, if it is in the interest of justice, 

transfer an appeal to the appropriate regional circuit that 

has jurisdiction. Here, however, the court finds that transfer would not be in the interest of justice because Ms. Hyde 

Rhodes’s identical appeals have already been before the 

Tenth Circuit and were dismissed. 

Accordingly,

 IT IS ORDERED THAT: 

(1) The appeals are dismissed.

(2) Each side to bear its own costs.

February 22, 2024 

 Date

FOR THE COURT

 

 

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