NOTE: This order is nonprecedential. United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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.
O R D E R
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 “for2 2 STEWART v. ALFRED A. ARRAJ UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE
violation of 14th am[]endment and wrongful i[m]prisonment.” 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 dismissal and dismissed the action without prejudice. On April 15, 2025, Mr. Stewart filed a notice of appeal seeking review 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 district 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 appeal. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) The appeal is dismissed. (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.
FOR THE COURT
September 29, 2025 Date