Stewart v. Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse

Case: 25-1669 Document: 7 Page: 1 Filed: 09/29/2025

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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CHRISTOPHER L. STEWART,

Plaintiff-Appellant v.

ALFRED A. ARRAJ UNITED STATES

COURTHOUSE, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER,

COLORADO, Defendants-Appellees ______________________

2025-1669 ______________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Colorado in No. 1:22-cv-00031-LTB, Senior Judge Lewis T. Babcock.

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PER CURIAM.

ORDER

No party having filed a response to the court’s June 16, 2025 show cause order, we now dismiss.

Christopher L. Stewart filed this civil rights action in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado naming as defendants the Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse and the city and county of Denver, Colorado. The complaint sought, among other things, $25,000 “for Case: 25-1669 Document: 7 Page: 2 Filed: 09/29/2025 2 STEWART v. ALFRED A. ARRAJ UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE violation of 14th am[]endment and wrongful i[m]prison- ment.” Dkt. No. 1 at 5. On January 24, 2022, the district court issued an order construing Mr. Stewart’s filing of a “motion to withdraw the original civil complaint without prejudice,” Dkt. No. 5 at 1, as a notice of voluntary dismis- sal and dismissed the action without prejudice. On April 15, 2025, Mr. Stewart filed a notice of appeal seeking re- view in this court.

“[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). Here, Mr. Stewart’s appeal from the dis- trict court’s January 24, 2022 order is more than three years late. For at least this reason, we and any other court of appeals lack jurisdiction. We therefore dismiss the ap- peal.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT: (1) The appeal is dismissed. (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.

FOR THE COURT September 29, 2025

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