Unpublished Dispositionterry Epperson, Lawrence Epperson, Madeline Epperson,kenneth Epperson, and Patsy D. Price, Plaintiffs-appellants, v. Steve Mullins, Larry Mullinex, Unknown Officers of Thesullivan County Sheriff's Department, Patrick Howard,sheriff Mike Gardner, Damion Gordon, Raymond Kanipe, Andbruce Bullis, Defendants-appellees, 815 F.2d 703 (6th Cir. 1987)

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit - 815 F.2d 703 (6th Cir. 1987) March 17, 1987

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, BOGGS, Circuit Judge, and CELEBREZZE, Senior Judge.


ORDER

Appellees move to dismiss this appeal as being untimely filed. Appellants have responded thereto and argue that the appeal is timely.

The notice of appeal, filed January 9, 1987, indicates that appellants seeks appellate review of the district court's order of December 16, 1986. That order denied appellants' motion to dismiss, quashed certain subpoenas, denied appellants' motions for sanctions and to hold appellees in contempt and granted appellees' motion to dismiss Terry Epperson as counsel because he is not an attorney and because he was dismissed as a party by the district court's order of October 1, 1986. The district court's order of December 16, 1986, also denied Terry Epperson's motion to reconsider the order of October 1, 1986, dismissing him as a plaintiff.

Insofar as the order of December 16, 1986, denied Terry Epperson's motion to reconsider, it is a nonappealable order. Peabody Coal Co. v. Local Union Nos. 1734, 1508 & 1548, U.M.W., 484 F.2d 78 (6th Cir. 1983).

Because the remainder of the district court's order of December 16, 1986, is not a final appealable order within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Catlin v. United States, 324 U.S. 229 (1945); Ford Motor Co. v. Transportation Indemnity Co., 795 F.2d 538 (6th Cir. 1986).

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