Reverend W. Eugene Scott v. Evelle J. Younger

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• noting that a timely filed motion “tolls the running of the time limitations for filing the notice of appeal until the district court rules on the motion”
• addressing then-applicable 10-day period under 21 Rule 59(e) before statutory amendment expanded the period to 28 days
• denial of “request to ‘entertain’ a motion to vacate ... is interlocutory in nature and not appealable.”
• time period specified in Rule 59 \is jurisdictional and cannot be extended by the court\
• “Failure to timely file a notice of appeal must result in dismissal for lack of appellate jurisdiction.”
• “[I]f the district court’s order is construed as a denial of Scott’s request to ‘entertain’ the motion to vacate, that denial is interlocutory in nature and not appealable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).