UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

TENTH CIRCUIT

MARY HESKETT LUMAN,
Plaintiff - Appellant,	No. 98-7041
v.	(D.C. No. 97-CV-601-S)
JIM FIELDS, Area Director, Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs; JACK CHANEY, Bureau of Indian Affairs; RANDY TRICKY, Land Titles and Realty Property Management; MARY DOWNING, Bureau of Indian Affairs; JANET RENO, Attorney General; BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary of Interior; and BRUCE GREEN, U. S. Attorney,	(E.D. Okla.)
Defendants - Appellees.

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before ANDERSON, McKAY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument.

Plaintiff filed the present complaint on October 22, 1997. After review, the trial court dismissed plaintiff's complaint "for the reason that the issues raised by plaintiff's complaint have previously been determined by a decision of this court which was appealed and confirmed, and for the reason that the issues have previously been determined by an administrative decision on which the statute of limitations has run on the appeal time." R. Vol. 1, Ex. 32.

Despite Plaintiff's attempts to characterize her claim as something other than those in the case decided against her and affirmed on appeal, there is nothing in the record or in her arguments to support that contention. In addition, the trial court generously construed her complaint as an appeal from a decision against her by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals in 1993. As the court's order pointed out, the time for appeal of that decision has long ago passed. Neither the trial court nor this court has jurisdiction to hear such an appeal.

The decision of the trial court is AFFIRMED. Plaintiff's motion to expedite the appeal is not necessary in view of this decision which ends the matter.

Entered for the Court

Monroe G. McKay

Circuit Judge