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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA

ELIZABETH WALLACE FLEMING,

Plaintiff,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant.

Case No. 3:24-cv-00155-SLG

ORDER RE U.S. MOTION TO DISMISS

Before the Court at Docket 9 is the U.S. Motion to Dismiss. Plaintiff did not 

file a response to the motion. Plaintiff Elizabeth Fleming did not file any response 

to the motion. 

The government asserts that this action was filed in the wrong forum, and 

therefore this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction. It asserts that Ms. Fleming’s 

claims are claims affecting her rights and interests under the Federal Employees’ 

Retirement System (“FERS”), and that “Congress provided the exclusive remedial 

path for individuals to pursue claims affecting their rights and interests” under 

FERS by requiring claims to first be brought to the Office of Personnel 

Management, then to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, and finally, to the 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.1 

1 Docket 9 at 2. 

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The Untied States has persuasively demonstrated that this Court is the 

wrong forum for Ms. Fleming’s dispute with OPM, and Ms. Fleming has not 

responded to the motion to dismiss. Therefore, IT IS ORDERED that the motion 

to dismiss at Docket 9 is GRANTED and this action is DISMISSED. The Clerk of 

Court shall enter a final judgment accordingly. 

DATED this 9th day of December 2024, at Anchorage, Alaska.

/s/ Sharon L. Gleason 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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