The Honorable Barbara S. Jones, of the United States District Court * for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. 09-4069-bk In Re: B.A.R. Entertainment Management, Inc.



### UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER

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## 1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals 

## 2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan 

## 3 United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of 

## 4 New York, on the 15 day of November, two thousand and ten. th 

## 5 6 PRESENT: B ARR ING TON 

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## 8 Circuit Judges , 

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## 10 District Judge. 

## 11 12 13 14 IN RE: B.A.R. ENTERTAINMENT MANAGEMENT, INC., 

## 15 16 Debtor. 

## 17 18 19 PATRICIA A. SMALLS, 

## 20 21 Appellant , 

## 22 23 -v.- 09-4069-bk 

## 24 25 COLASANTI & IURATO, LLP, GLEN IURATU, B.A.R. ENTERTAINMENT 

## 26 MANAGEMENT, INC., B.A.R. ENTERTAINMENT, INC., RAY D. 

## 27 COPELAND, RATTET PASTERNAK & GORDON-OLIVER, LLP, JULIE A. 

## 28 CVEK, ARLENE GORDON-OLIVER, JAMES B. GLUCKSMAN, 

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## 1 Appellees. 

## 2 3 4 FOR APPELLANT: PATRICIA A. SMALLS, New York, NY. 

## 5 6 FOR APPELLEE: KYLE C. MCGOVERN, Lyons McGovern LLP, 

## 7 Sleepy Hollow, NY ( Counsel for Colasanti 

## 8 & Iurato, LLP ); JAMES B. GLUCKSMAN, 

## 9 Harrison, NY ( Counsel for Rattet 

## 10 Pasternak & Gordon-Oliver, LLP ). 

## 11 12 Appeal from a judgment of the United States District 

## 13 Court for the Southern District of New York (Daniels, J. ). 

## 14 15 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED 

## 16 AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be 

## 17 AFFIRMED . 

## 18 Appellant Patricia A. Smalls, pro se , appeals from a 

## 19 judgment of the United States District Court for the 

## 20 Southern District of New York (Daniels, J. ) granting 

## 21 Appellees’ motions to dismiss her appeal from a decision of 

## 22 the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District 

## 23 of New York as untimely filed. We assume the parties’ 

## 24 familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural 

## 25 history, and the issues presented for review. 

## 26 We conclude that the district court correctly dismissed 

## 27 Smalls’s bankruptcy appeal. The time limit prescribed by 

## 28 Rule 8002(a) of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure 

## 29 for filing an appeal from a judgment or order of the

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## 1 bankruptcy court “is jurisdictional, and . . . in the 

## 2 absence of a timely notice of appeal in the district court, 

## 3 the district court is without jurisdiction to consider the 

## 4 appeal, regardless of whether the appellant can demonstrate 

## 5 ‘excusable neglect.’” In re Siemon , 421 F.3d 167, 169 (2d 

## 6 Cir. 2005) (per curiam). Under the version of Rule 8002(a) 

## 7 in effect at the time of the underlying events, Smalls had 

## 8 ten days after the bankruptcy court dismissed her 

## 9 adversarial proceeding to file a notice of appeal; she did 

## 10 not file her notice until twenty-one days after that court 

## 11 entered its order. Accordingly, her notice of appeal was 

## 12 untimely filed, and the district court lacked jurisdiction 

## 13 over her appeal. 

## 14 For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district 

## 15 court is hereby AFFIRMED . We therefore deny Smalls’s 

## 16 pending motion to strike as moot. 

## 17 18 FOR THE COURT: 

## 19 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk 

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