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USCA11 Case: 22-13408     Document: 36-1    Date Filed: 11/03/2023   Page: 1 of 3

                                                  [DO NOT PUBLISH]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

                           ____________________

                                No. 22-13408
                           Non-Argument Calendar
                           ____________________

       NORMA MARTIN,
                                 Plaintiﬀ-Counter Defendant-Appellant,
       versus
       E.C. PUBLICATIONS INC.,
       WARNER COMMUNICATIONS LLC,
       d.b.a. DC Comics

                              Defendants-Counter Claimants-Appellees,

       DC COMICS, Inc.,
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                                                                Defendant.

                            ____________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Southern District of Florida
                     D.C. Docket No. 1:19-cv-21167-DPG
                           ____________________

       Before JORDAN, JILL PRYOR, and BRANCH, Circuit Judges.
       PER CURIAM:
               We issued a jurisdictional question asking whether the dis-
       trict court has entered a final, appealable order, and, particularly,
       whether Appellees’ counterclaims have been resolved. In re-
       sponse, Appellees request that we remand this appeal to the district
       court for a ruling on their pending motion to dismiss the counter-
       claims. Appellant Norma Martin opposes the motion. We con-
       clude that the district court has not entered a final or appealable
       order, so this appeal is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction and Ap-
       pellees’ motion to remand is DENIED as MOOT.
              Martin appeals the district court’s September 27, 2022 order
       entering summary judgment to Appellees on all of her claims.
       However, the district court’s order did not address Appellees’
       counterclaims, and our review of the record does not reveal any
       other order disposing of them. Further, the district court did not
       certify its September 27, 2022 order for immediate review under
       Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b). Accordingly, the district
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       court’s order is not final or immediately appealable, and we lack
       jurisdiction to review it. See 28 U.S.C. § 1291; Supreme Fuels Trading
       FZE v. Sargeant, 689 F.3d 1244, 1246 (11th Cir. 2012).
              Because we lack jurisdiction over this appeal, we decline to
       entertain Appellees’ motion to remand. See Vachon v. Travelers
       Home & Marine Ins. Co., 20 F.4th 1343, 1347 (11th Cir. 2021) (stating
       that when we lack jurisdiction, “we may do no more than ‘an-
       nounc[e] the fact and dismiss[] the cause’” (quoting United States v.
       Amodeo, 916 F.3d 967, 971 (11th Cir. 2019))).