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CASE STUDY: 989 F.2d 1074
Effective Foreclosure Defense requires timing. If you time correctly, you can save your home. Homeowners presently in litigation must time correctly when appealling adverse ruling to avoid conflict of Jurisdiction. This case shows how wrong timing before filing a Notice of Appeal resulted to Dismissal of Appeal for Lack of Jurisdiction.
989 F.2d 1074
25 Fed.R.Serv.3d 62
Don Byron REILLY; Mary Lou Reilly, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Bruce HUSSEY, Attorney; Robert J. Phillips, Attorney;
Federal Land Bank of Spokane, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 91-35903.
United States Court of Appeals,
Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Nov. 2, 1992.
Decided March 23, 1993.
Don Byron Reilly and Mary Lou Reilly, pro se.
W. Arthur Graham, Cent. Coast Farm Credit, Arroyo Grande, CA, for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana.
Before: WRIGHT, HUG, and POOLE, Circuit Judges.
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The Reillys appeal pro se the district court’s order dismissing their adversary complaint. Because their notice of appeal was filed while a motion for rehearing was pending in the district court, we lack jurisdiction to hear their appeal.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
11 The Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules deliberately omitted any provision regarding the effect of an appeal filed before the entry of an order denying a rehearing because it wished to “leave undisturbed the current state of law in that area.” Fed.R.App.P. 6, Advisory Committee Notes, 1989 Amendment, subdivision (b)(2). At the time of the amendment, this circuit had held that a notice of appeal in a bankruptcy case is null if it was filed while a motion for rehearing was pending in the district court. In re Stringer, 847 F.2d 549, 550 (9th Cir.1988). That holding is left undisturbed by the 1989 amendment of Fed.R.App.R. 6, and we reaffirm Stringer in this context.
Under 28 U.S.C. § 455(e), a judge is not allowed to “accept from the parties to a proceeding a waiver of any ground for disqualification” based on the financial interest of the judge’s spouse. The Reillys did not seek review of the disqualification issue, however, until some five years and numerous proceedings later. While § 455 contains no explicit timeliness requirement, we have required that a motion to disqualify or recuse a judge under this section must be made in a timely fashion. Molina v. Rison, 886 F.2d 1124, 1131 (9th Cir.1989).
Moreover, in August 1990, while the present action was pending in district court, the Reillys filed a complaint with the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit alleging misconduct by Judge Peterson. We issued an order concluding that “[i]f the judge’s failure to recuse himself, despite the parties’ remittal, was conduct prejudicial to the effective and efficient administration of the business of the courts, appropriate and corrective action has been taken and this complaint therefore should be closed.” In re Charge of Judicial Misconduct, No. 90-80054, at 4 (9th Cir. Jan. 11, 1991).
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