Eric Dudley v. Georgia Lottery Corporation

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Decided: February 5, 2026
• Docket: 25-13466
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

USCA11 Case: 25-13466 Document: 15-1 Date Filed: 02/05/2026 Page: 1 of 2

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-13466 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________

ERIC DUDLEY, SAM DUDLEY, Plaintiffs-Appellants, versus

GEORGIA LOTTERY CORPORATION, AMEE'S QUICK MART, AMEE'S QUICK STOP, GEORGIA LOTTERY COMPANY, Defendants-Appellees. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia D.C. Docket No. 1:24-cv-03353-ELR ____________________

Before JILL PRYOR, GRANT, and ABUDU, Circuit Judges. USCA11 Case: 25-13466 Document: 15-1 Date Filed: 02/05/2026 Page: 2 of 2

2 Opinion of the Court 25-13466

PER CURIAM: Eric and Sam Dudley, pro se, filed a notice of appeal on Sep- tember 30, 2025, designating the district court’s final judgment, which it entered on August 29, 2025. The appeal is untimely, as the 30-day statutory time limit re- quired the Dudleys to file their notice of appeal by September 29. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(A) (providing that a notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days after the judgment or order appealed from is entered if there is not a federal party), 26(a)(1)(C) (providing that if the last day of the appeal period is a weekend, the period continues to run until the end of the next day that is not a weekend or legal holiday). The Dudleys did not move to extend or reopen the appeal period. See Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(5)-(6). We thus lack jurisdiction over this appeal. See Green v. Drug Enf’t Admin., 606 F.3d 1296, 1300-02 (11th Cir. 2010) (holding that a timely notice of ap- peal is a jurisdictional requirement in a civil case). Accordingly, this appeal is DISMISSED, sua sponte, for lack of jurisdiction.