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                                                [DO NOT PUBLISH]
                                 In the
                United States Court of Appeals
                        For the Eleventh Circuit

                         ____________________

                              No. 24-10098
                         Non-Argument Calendar
                         ____________________

       In Re: BARBARA ALBYTINE GIBBS,
                                                              Debtor.
       ______________________________________________
       M. EUGENE GIBBS,
                                                   Plaintiﬀ-Appellant,
       versus
       BARBARA ALBYTINE GIBBS,
       NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC,
       d.b.a. Mr. Cooper,
       BANK OF AMERICA,
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                                                     Defendants-Appellees.

                            ____________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Northern District of Georgia
                     D.C. Docket No. 1:23-cv-01898-MHC,
                         Bkcy No. 1:19-bk-54809-WLH
                           ____________________

       Before JORDAN, NEWSOM, and GRANT, Circuit Judges.
       PER CURIAM:
               This appeal is DISMISSED, sua sponte, for lack of jurisdic-
       tion. M. Eugene Gibbs, proceeding pro se, filed a counterclaim in
       the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of
       Georgia as an interested party to his wife’s Chapter 13 bankruptcy
       proceedings. Gibbs appealed two bankruptcy court orders to the
       district court, which entered a final order and judgment dismissing
       Gibbs’s district court appeal on August 7, 2023. Gibbs filed two
       postjudgment motions, which the district court denied in orders
       entered September 8, 2023, and September 15, 2023. Gibbs filed a
       notice of appeal from the district court’s August 7, 2023, final order
       and judgment and September 8, 2023, and September 15, 2023, or-
       ders denying his postjudgment motions.
               Gibbs’s notice of appeal was untimely to appeal from the
       district court’s August 7, 2023, final order and judgment and Sep-
       tember 8, 2023, and September 15, 2023, orders. The deadline to
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       appeal from the first two orders, and the judgment, was October
       10, 2023, because Gibbs’s first postjudgment motion tolled the time
       to appeal, while the deadline to appeal from the third order was
       October 16, 2023. See Fed. R. App. P. 6(a); see also Fed. R. App. P.
       4(a)(1)(A); Fed. R. App. P. 6(b)(2)(A); Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8022; Fed.
       R. App. P. 26(a)(1)(C). However, Gibbs did not file his notice of
       appeal until January 8, 2024. Thus, Gibbs’s appeal cannot invoke
       our appellate jurisdiction as to any of the orders. See In re Porto, 645
       F.3d 1294, 1301 (11th Cir. 2011).
              No petition for rehearing may be filed unless it complies
       with the timing and other requirements of 11th Cir. R. 40-3 and all
       other applicable rules.