889 F2d 1086 Carone v. Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Company

889 F.2d 1086

De Anna Renee CARONE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
COLUMBUS & SOUTHERN OHIO ELECTRIC COMPANY; Columbus
Southern Power, Defendants-Appellees.

No. 89-3962.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Nov. 20, 1989.

Unpublished Disposition
NOTICE: Sixth Circuit Rule 24(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Sixth Circuit.

1

Before KRUPANSKY and RYAN, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD H. JOHNSTONE, Chief District Judge*.

ORDER

2

This appeal has been referred to a panel of the court pursuant to Rule 9(a), Rules of the Sixth Circuit.

3

A review of the documents before the court indicates that the district court by order entered October 12, 1989, dismissed the civil rights action except as to the race discrimination claim. Appellant appealed on October 18, 1989, from the October 12 order.

4

This court lacks jurisdiction in this appeal. Absent a Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b) certification, an order disposing of fewer than all the claims or parties involved in the action is not appealable. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Wetzel, 424 U.S. 737, 742-45 (1976); Solomon v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., 782 F.2d 58, 59-60 (6th Cir.1986). No Rule 54(b) certification was made in the instant case. The final decision of the district court has not been entered during the pendency of this appeal; therefore, this court lacks jurisdiction. See Gillis v. United States Dep't of HHS, 759 F.2d 565, 569 (6th Cir.1985).

5

It is ORDERED that the appeal be, and it hereby is, dismissed. Rule 9(b)(1), Rules of the Sixth Circuit.

*

The Honorable Edward H. Johnstone, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, sitting by designation