Kim Hyde Rhodes v. Judge Jeffrey Wilcox, Judge Jay Winward, State of Utah

N OTE: This order is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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KIM HYDE RHODES,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY
WINWARD, STATE OF UTAH,
Defendants-Appellees
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2024-1224
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00077-DN, Senior Judge Da-
vid Nuffer.
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KIM HYDE RHODES,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
IDAHO HEALTH WELFARE, MAGISTRATE JUDGE
ROBERT CROWLEY, JIM MASON, Casa 7, JUDGE
STEVAN THOMPSON,
Defendants-Appellees
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2024-1225
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00078-DN, Senior Judge Da-
vid Nuffer.
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KIM HYDE RHODES,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
TED BARNEY, KAYLA CORPENBARGER,
Defendants-Appellees
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2024-1226
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00079-DN, Senior Judge Da-
vid Nuffer.
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KIM HYDE RHODES,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY
WINWARD,
Defendants-Appellees
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2024-1227
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Case: 24-1224 Document: 12 Page: 2 Filed: 02/22/2024

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00083-DN, Senior Judge Da-
vid Nuffer.
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KIM HYDE RHODES,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
ROBERT HORN, JEFFREY C. WILCOX,
WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE,
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, US DOJ,
Defendants-Appellees
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2024-1228
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00084-DN, Senior Judge Da-
vid Nuffer.
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KIM HYDE RHODES,
Plaintiff-Appellant
v.
JUDGE JEFFREY WILCOX, JUDGE JAY
WINWARD, STATE OF UTAH,
Defendants-Appellees
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2024-1229
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
District of Utah in No. 4:23-cv-00085-DN, Senior Judge Da-
vid Nuffer.
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P ER CURIAM .
O R D E R
The court has received no response to its December 28,
2023 order regarding whether these appeals should be dis-
missed or transferred. We now dismiss.
In the complaint underlying Appeal No. 2024-1228,
Kim Hyde Rhodes sought $500,000 in damages from,
among others, United States agencies. Her other com-
plaints giving rise to these appeals sought relief in connec-
tion with domestic matters against state entities or
individuals. The district court dismissed the cases. Ms.
Hyde Rhodes filed a notice of appeal for each case. The
notices were then transmitted to the United States Court
of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and Ms. Hyde Rhodes sub-
sequently filed a second set of appeals directed to this
court.*
These appeals do not fall within the limited authority
that Congress granted this court to review decisions of fed-
eral district courts. That jurisdiction generally extends to
cases arising under the patent laws, see 28 U.S.C.
§ 1295(a)(1); civil actions on review to the district court
from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, see
§ 1295(a)(4)(C); and civil actions involving certain damages
claims against the United States “not exceeding $10,000 in
amount,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2), see 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(2);
* The Tenth Circuit dismissed the appeals for lack of
prosecution and issued mandate on February 9, 2024.
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28 U.S.C. § 1292(c)(1). None of Ms. Hyde Rhodes’s cases
falls within that limited jurisdiction.
When this court lacks jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 1631
provides that the court may, if it is in the interest of justice,
transfer an appeal to the appropriate regional circuit that
has jurisdiction. Here, however, the court finds that trans-
fer would not be in the interest of justice because Ms. Hyde
Rhodes’s identical appeals have already been before the
Tenth Circuit and were dismissed.
Accordingly,
I T I S O RDERED T HAT :
(1) The appeals are dismissed.
(2) Each side to bear its own costs.
February 22, 2024
Date
F OR THE COURT
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