Court Opinion

ID: 9946178
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-29 16:02:32.94762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:25:29.905943
License: Public Domain

Case: 24-1224     Document: 12     Page: 1    Filed: 02/22/2024

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.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
              ______________________

                         2024-1224
                   ______________________

     Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00077-DN, Senior Judge Da-
 vid Nuffer.
              -------------------------------------------------

                   KIM HYDE RHODES,
                     Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

 IDAHO HEALTH WELFARE, MAGISTRATE JUDGE
  ROBERT CROWLEY, JIM MASON, Casa 7, JUDGE
            STEVAN THOMPSON,
             Defendants-Appellees
            ______________________

                          2024-1225
Case: 24-1224    Document: 12      Page: 2    Filed: 02/22/2024

 2                                    HYDE RHODES v. WILCOX

                   ______________________

     Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00078-DN, Senior Judge Da-
 vid Nuffer.
              ------------------------------------------------

                  KIM HYDE RHODES,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

      TED BARNEY, KAYLA CORPENBARGER,
              Defendants-Appellees
             ______________________

                         2024-1226
                   ______________________

     Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00079-DN, Senior Judge Da-
 vid Nuffer.
              ------------------------------------------------

                  KIM HYDE RHODES,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

       JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY
                   WINWARD,
               Defendants-Appellees
              ______________________

                         2024-1227
                   ______________________
Case: 24-1224    Document: 12      Page: 3    Filed: 02/22/2024

 HYDE RHODES v. WILCOX                                      3

     Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00083-DN, Senior Judge Da-
 vid Nuffer.
              ------------------------------------------------

                  KIM HYDE RHODES,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

     ROBERT HORN, JEFFREY C. WILCOX,
   WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE,
 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, US DOJ,
             Defendants-Appellees
            ______________________

                         2024-1228
                   ______________________

     Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00084-DN, Senior Judge Da-
 vid Nuffer.
              ------------------------------------------------

                  KIM HYDE RHODES,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

       JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY
           WINWARD, STATE OF UTAH,
               Defendants-Appellees
              ______________________

                         2024-1229
                   ______________________
Case: 24-1224    Document: 12      Page: 4    Filed: 02/22/2024

 4                                    HYDE RHODES v. WILCOX

     Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00085-DN, Senior Judge Da-
 vid Nuffer.
                   ______________________

 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
    The court has received no response to its December 28,
 2023 order regarding whether these appeals should be dis-
 missed 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 com-
 plaints giving rise to these appeals sought relief in connec-
 tion 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 sub-
 sequently 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 fed-
 eral 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.
Case: 24-1224      Document: 12      Page: 5     Filed: 02/22/2024

 HYDE RHODES v. WILCOX                                          5

 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 trans-
 fer 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.
                                                  FOR THE COURT

 February 22, 2024
       Date