
    Lance Hanson AYERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. 482018-DIV: “N”; Allen Correctional; 19th Judicial, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 05-30858.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    April 20, 2006.
    Lance Hanson Ayers, Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections Allen Correctional Center, pro se.
    Before JOLLY, DAVIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Lance Ayers, Louisiana prisoner # 122241, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his complaint for failure to comply with a court order to amend his pleadings. As a threshold matter, this court is obligated to examine sua sponte the basis of its jurisdiction. See Williams v. Chater, 87 F.3d 702, 704 (5th Cir.1996). At the same time he filed his notice of appeal, Ayers also filed a “Motion and Order to Enter Objection,” seeking reconsideration of the district court’s dismissal order, which we construe as a timely-filed Rule 59(e) motion. See Shepherd v. Int’l Paper Co., 372 F.3d 326, 328 n. 1 (5th Cir.2004). The filing of a timely Fed.R.Civ.P. 59(e) motion renders a notice of appeal ineffective until the district court enters an order disposing of the motion. Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(4)(B)(i). Ayers’s notice of appeal is, therefore, ineffective.

Consequently, this case must be remanded, and the record returned, so that the district court may rule on Ayers’s post-judgment motion “as expeditiously as possible, consistent with a just and fair disposition thereof.” Burt v. Ware, 14 F.3d 256, 261 (5th Cir.1994). The clerk of this court shall process the appeal immediately upon the return of the case from the district court.

LIMITED REMAND. 
      
      . Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.
     