Stone v. Wyoming Supreme Court
| Decision Date | 04 August 1956 |
| Docket Number | No. 5372.,5372. |
| Parties | J. Norman "Stoney" STONE, Appellant, v. The Honorable WYOMING SUPREME COURT, Appellee. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Tenth Circuit |
Robert H. McPhillamey, Deputy Atty. Gen. (George F. Guy, Atty. Gen. of Wyoming, and Howard B. Black, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Wyoming, were with him on the brief), amicus curiae.
Before BRATTON, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and ROGERS, District Judge.
J. Norman Stone, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, made application for admission to the Bar of Wyoming. After certain intervening procedure, the application was denied. Application of Stone, Wyo., 288 P.2d 767. Petitioner then filed in the United States Court for Wyoming this proceeding in which he sought a writ of mandamus to compel the Supreme Court of Wyoming to admit him to the Bar of that state. Honorable T. Blake Kennedy, United States Judge for Wyoming, retired, but assigned to active service in the court, entered an order dismissing the petition for want of jurisdiction. Petitioner then filed in the proceeding a pleading styled "Motion for Permission to Exercise Legal Right of Argument in Open Court and for Disqualification of Honorable Judge Blake T. Kennedy". An order was entered denying the motion. Petitioner thereafter filed a pleading denominated "Motion to Reconsider Honorable Court's Order Overruling Plaintiff's Motion to Exercise Legal Right of Argument in Open Court and for Disqualification of Honorable Judge T. Blake Kennedy and Motion for Citation by Honorable Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Cases Supporting Said Denial as Explained in Judge's Memorandum". An order was entered denying such motion. Later, petitioner filed a pleading styled "Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint and for Disqualification of Hon. T. Blake Kennedy, Retired Judge". An affidavit of prejudice and a proposed amended complaint were tendered with the motion. At the same time, petitioner filed a pleading styled "Motion for Leave to Argue Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint and for Disqualification of Honorable T. Blake Kennedy, Retired Judge". At that juncture a letter was filed in the proceeding. The letter was written by the judge to the clerk. It was stated in the letter that the orders already entered in the cause formed the basis of any appeal upon the question of the court's action in declining jurisdiction and on all collateral issues involved; that the court would make no further orders in the case except those necessary to expedite an appeal; that the letter should become a part of the files in the case; and that a copy thereof be transmitted to plaintiff for his information. Petitioner appealed.
Courts of appeals are courts of limited jurisdiction; and save for excepted instances in which it is provided otherwise by statute, they have jurisdiction to review only final decisions of the district courts. Reeves v. Beardall, 316 U.S. 283, 62 S.Ct. 1085, 86 L.Ed. 1478; Crutcher v. Joyce, 10 Cir., 134 F.2d 809; State Tax Commission of Utah v. United States, 10 Cir., 136 F.2d 903; Breeding Motor Freight Lines v. Reconstruction Finance Corp., 10 Cir., 172 F.2d 416, certiorari denied 338 U.S. 814, 70 S.Ct. 54, 94 L.Ed. 493; Kanatser v. Chrysler Corp., 10 Cir., 195 F.2d 104; The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Jackson, 10 Cir., 235 F.2d 390.
With exceptions which do not have any material bearing here, Rule of Civil Procedure 73(a), 28 U.S.C.A., provides that when an appeal is permitted by law from a district court to a court of appeals, it shall be taken by filing with the district court a notice of appeal, and that such notice shall be filed within thirty days after entry of the...
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