Imad Hamzi v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company

Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company (“Minnesota Life”) moves to dismiss this appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction. We grant the motion.

Appellant Imad Hamzi, who failed to file a notice of appeal from the civil judgment within the time prescribed by Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1), thereafter filed an ex parte motion in the district court for an extension of time under Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(5). Minnesota Mutual argues that the rules did not allow Hamzi to make that motion ex parte, and that his doing so was a jurisdictional defect that deprived the district court of authority to grant an…