Case Name: Tariku KEIRA, Plaintiff-Appellant, Perry White, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, United States Postal Service, United States Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-10-14
Citations: 400 F. App'x 477
Docket Number: No. 10-12000
Parties: Tariku KEIRA, Plaintiff-Appellant, Perry White, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, United States Postal Service, United States Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 400
Pages: 477–479

Head Matter:
Tariku KEIRA, Plaintiff-Appellant, Perry White, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, United States Postal Service, United States Office of Personnel Management, Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 10-12000
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Oct. 14, 2010.
Tariku Keira, Lauderdale Lakes, FL, pro se.
Jeanne Mullenhoff, Esq., Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lisette M. Reid, Anne R. Schultz, Jeffrey H. Sloman, Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Tariku Keira, pro se, appeals his sua sponte dismissal by the district court from the original, multi-party complaint with prejudice for failure to comply with a contempt order entered in a prior civil action. During the course of previous litigation, Keira was identified as a serial and abusive filer. As a result, a contempt order was issued requiring Keira to post a $1,500 bond in connection with all future pro se filings regarding his employment with the United States Postal Service filed in the Southern District of Florida as well as file a copy of the contempt order with every lawsuit he filed from the date of the order forward. On appeal, Keira argues generally that he was improperly dismissed based upon his failure to file a copy of the contempt order and the dismissal resulted in the violation for Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(m).
We generally review for abuse of discretion a district court's order dismissing a complaint for failure to comply with the rules of the court. Zocaras v. Castro, 465 F.3d 479, 483 (11th Cir.2006). The district court possesses the inherent power to police its docket. Link v. Wabash R.R. Co., 370 U.S. 626, 629-30, 82 S.Ct. 1386, 1388, 8 L.Ed.2d 734 (1962). A district court may dismiss a case with prejudice based on either (1) Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(b); or (2) the court's inherent power to manage its docket. Betty K Agencies, Ltd. v. M/V MONADA, 432 F.3d 1333, 1337 (11th Cir.2005). As we have recognized, federal courts have both the inherent power and the constitutional obligation to protect their jurisdiction from conduct which impairs their ability to carry out Article III functions, and have a responsibility to prevent single litigants from unnecessarily encroaching on the judicial machinery needed by others. Procup v. Strickland, 792 F.2d 1069, 1073 (11th Cir.1986) (en banc). Additionally, a district court has the discretion to dismiss a complaint with prejudice as a sanction for a plaintiffs failure to comply with previously-ordered restrictions on filing lawsuits. Martin-Trigona v. Shaw, 986 F.2d 1384, 1387 (11th Cir.1993).
Because the district court possesses the inherent power to police its docket and may dismiss a case with prejudice based on this power, the district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing Keira with prejudice as he failed to comply with the terms of the previous contempt order. Keira was aware of the terms of the order as he had previously been sanctioned for failing to file a copy of the order. Additionally, because Keira was properly dismissed from the complaint, there is no Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(m) violation. Accordingly, we affirm Keira's dismissal with prejudice.
AFFIRMED.