Court Opinion

ID: 9400440
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Date Created: 2023-06-08 15:01:17.114268+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:45.212910
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Case: 23-1458    Document: 12     Page: 1   Filed: 06/08/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                    MATTIE LOMAX,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                             v.

   CAPITAL RENTAL AGENCY, INC., AMERICAN
      INVESTMENT SERVICES, GREGORY
       SCHWEITZER, MYRNA B. PALLEY,
              Defendants-Appellees
             ______________________

                        2023-1458
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Southern District of Florida in No. 1:09-cv-21347-RLR,
 Judge Robin L. Rosenberg.
                 ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

 PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
      Mattie Lomax moves for “entry of default,” ECF No. 7
 at 1; responds to the court’s March 23, 2023, show cause
 order, ECF No. 8; and seeks “leave to amend [her] exhibit
 list and to admit into evidence certain additional [exhib-
 its],” ECF No. 9 at 1. Appellees move for an extension of
Case: 23-1458     Document: 12      Page: 2    Filed: 06/08/2023

 2                      LOMAX   v. CAPITAL RENTAL AGENCY, INC.

 time to respond to the court’s March 23, 2023, order, which
 Ms. Lomax moves to strike. The court dismisses this ap-
 peal.
      In May 2009, Ms. Lomax filed a notice of removal from
 state court for her action alleging violation of landlord ob-
 ligations and retaliatory practices. The United States Dis-
 trict Court for the Southern District of Florida remanded
 the case to state court on May 20, 2009, and denied Ms.
 Lomax’s motion for reconsideration on February 17, 2010.
 Ms. Lomax filed a notice of appeal on January 24, 2023,
 seeking review of the remand order.
      “[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 more than 13
 years after the district court’s remand order. At least be-
 cause of this untimeliness, we lack jurisdiction over the ap-
 peal, and we cannot transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The appeal is dismissed.
     (2) All pending motions are denied as moot.
     (3) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                         FOR THE COURT

 June 8, 2023                           /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
    Date                                Jarrett B. Perlow
                                        Acting Clerk of Court