Court Opinion

ID: 9395529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-18 14:01:43.329201+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:09.315057
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Case: 23-1504     Document: 7      Page: 1   Filed: 05/18/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                     MATTIE LOMAX,
                     Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

     MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT, JOHNNIE
              BERNELL MATHIS,
              Defendants-Appellees
             ______________________

                        2023-1504
                  ______________________

   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Southern District of Florida in No. 1:12-cv-23836-JAL,
Judge Joan A. Lenard.
                ______________________

PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
    Having considered Mattie Lomax’s response to this
court’s March 23, 2023, order to show cause, we dismiss.
“[T]he timely filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a
jurisdictional requirement,” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S.
205, 214 (2007), and, in order to be timely, a notice of ap-
peal must generally be filed within 30 days after entry of
final judgment, 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a); Fed. R. App.
P. 4(a)(1)(A). Here, Ms. Lomax filed her notice of appeal
nearly 10 years after the district court’s entry of final
Case: 23-1504      Document: 7     Page: 2   Filed: 05/18/2023

2                         LOMAX   v. MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT

judgment in this case. At least because of this untimeli-
ness, we lack jurisdiction over the appeal, and we cannot
transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1631 because the appeal would
not be timely in any other court of appeals.
    Accordingly,
    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
    (1) The appeal is dismissed.
    (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.
                                    FOR THE COURT

May 18, 2023                         /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
  Date                               Peter R. Marksteiner
                                     Clerk of Court