Legal Opinion
Michael Kitchen v. Daniel Heyns
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 6, 2015No. 15-2048PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
At stake is a matter of first impression: Do we have appellate jurisdiction over an appeal from a Civil Rule 21 order dismissing some but not all of the defendants in a lawsuit? Consistent with the other circuits that have addressed the issue, we conclude that we do not. The appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
Michael Kitchen filed a pro se lawsuit against twenty-two Michigan Corrections Officers, alleging constitutional violations stemming from the officers’ conduct at two prisons. He encountered seven defendants in one prison and thirteen in another,…
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