Soler v. Foreign Corporation FORMIAMI20 Inc.

Filing 9

ORDER on Motion to Vacate. Order denying 8 Motion to Vacate. Signed by Judge Beth Bloom on 11/17/2021. See attached document for full details. (kpe)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
Case No. 21-cv-22723-BLOOM
ALBERTO SOLER,
Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES
45TH ADMINISTRATION, et al.,
Appellees.
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ORDER ON MOTION TO VACATE
THIS CAUSE is before the Court upon Appellant Alberto Soler’s (“Appellant”) Motion
to Vacate the Bankruptcy Court’s Dismissal Order of Untimely Appeal Filing, ECF No. [8]
(“Motion”), filed on November 16, 2021. The Court has reviewed Motion, the record, the
applicable law, and is otherwise fully advised. For the reasons set forth below, the Motion is
denied.
On June 24, 2021, in the related Bankruptcy Court proceeding (Case No. 21-1054-BKCAJC-A), the Bankruptcy Court entered an Order Granting Motion for Clarification, BK-ECF No.
[54] (“First Order”). On July 12, 2021, the Bankruptcy Court entered an Order Denying Motion to
Strike, BK-ECF No. [76], (“Second Order”). Pursuant to Rule 8002(a)(1), “notice of appeal must
be filed with the bankruptcy clerk within 14 days after entry of the judgment, order, or decree
being appealed.” See Fed. R. Bankr. P. 8002(a)(1). On July 27, 2021, one day after the 14 day
deadline to file an appeal of the Second Order, the Clerk filed Appellant’s Notice of Appeal
(“Appeal”) appealing both Bankruptcy Court Orders. See ECF No. [1]. On July 30, 2021, the

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Bankruptcy Court entered an Order Dismissing Bankruptcy Appeal as untimely. See ECF No. [5].1
In the instant Motion, Appellant purports to have filed his Appeal on July 26, 2021, one
day before the deadline to appeal, by emailing his petition to [e-mail]. See ECF Nos. [8], [8-1] at 6. According to Appellant, Appellant
emailed his Appeal at 11:52 p.m. on July 26, 2021. See ECF No. [8-1] at 6. As such, Appellant
requests that the Court vacate the Order Dismissing Bankruptcy Appeal.
Pursuant to Administrative Order 2021-07,
If a person not represented by counsel needs to file a bankruptcy petition and
accompanying documents (“petition”), or if a debtor or party in interest in a pending
bankruptcy case or proceeding needs to file a document with the Clerk of Court
(“the Clerk”), and cannot do so in-person or by timely mailing the documents to
the Clerk, they may transmit the documents in Portable Document Format (PDF)
to the Clerk by electronic mail (“electronic transmission”) to the following
emergency email address: [e-mail].
Documents that are electronically transmitted to the Clerk shall not be deemed to
have been “FILED” until the filer receives an electronic reply by the Clerk
confirming the filing and (if applicable) the case number. Documents electronically
transmitted for filing after 4:00 p.m. will be stamped “FILED” the next business
day.
Administrative Order No. 2021-07 (Aug. 6, 2021) (emphasis added).
Because Appellant filed the appeal after 4:00 p.m. on July 26, 2021, the Appeal was
appropriately filed on the next business day, July 27, 2021. Therefore, Appellant’s Appeal was
untimely.
Accordingly, it is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Motion, ECF No. [8], is
DENIED.

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The Order Dismissing Bankruptcy Appeal states that the date of the First Order is June 23, 2021
and the date of the Second Order is July 9, 2021. See ECF No. [5]. The relevant dates for the
purposes of Rule 8002(a)(1) are the dates of entry, which is June 24, 2021, for the First Order and
July 12, 2021, for the Second Order. See Jones v. Gann, 703 F.2d 513, 514 (11th Cir. 1983) (“The
time for filing a notice of appeal begins to run not on the date that the judgment is filed but on the
date the judgment is actually entered on the docket.”).
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Case No. 21-cv-22723-BLOOM
DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Miami, Florida, on November 17, 2021.

_________________________________
BETH BLOOM
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Copies to:
Counsel of Record
Alberto Soler
4741 N.W. 5 Street
Miami, FL 33126
786-613-1778
PRO SE

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