Bli v. USA Farm Service Agency (In Re Bli Farms, Partnership)

OPINION

BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on an attempted appeal from the denial of a Federal Rule Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion taken from a district court sitting as an appellate court in bankruptcy. We conclude that the motion was a nullity and that therefore the district court had no jurisdiction to consider it. Further, since no valid notice of appeal was filed from the original final order of the district court, this Court also lacks jurisdiction over the purported appeal.

I. BACKGROUND

The facts in this case are lengthy and complex. The underlying state,…