Opinion ID: 710490
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Heading: Certification of Yontz's Appeal as Frivolous

Text: 15 Yontz's second argument on appeal is that the district court improperly dismissed his appeal as frivolous. We agree. In doing so, we rely on Dickerson v. McClellan, 37 F.2d 251 (6th Cir.1994). Dickerson involved facts which are substantially similar to those presented in this case. In Dickerson, the district court denied the defendants qualified immunity, and the defendants filed a notice of appeal. Id. The plaintiffs moved to certify defendants' appeal as frivolous, and the district court granted that motion. Id. at 252. Thereafter, the district court dismissed the defendants' notice of appeal. This court vacated the ruling of the district court, reasoning that [a] proper notice of appeal divests the court of jurisdiction and transfers jurisdiction to the court of appeals. Id. (citing Lewis v. Alexander, 987 F.2d 392, 394 (6th Cir.1993)). In light of Dickerson, we find that the district court's decision to certify Yontz's Forsyth appeal as frivolous was in error.