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Parties Involved:
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Respondent
Bryan Krumm
Petitioner

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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BRYAN KRUMM, 

 Petitioner, 

v.

DRUG ENFORCEMENT 

ADMINISTRATION, 

 Respondent.

No. 16-9557

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ORDER

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Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, KELLY, and MORITZ, Circuit Judges.

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We raise sua sponte the question of whether this court has jurisdiction to consider 

this petition for review. 

Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 15(a)(1) provides that “[r]eview of an agency 

order is commenced by filing, within the time prescribed by law, a petition for review. . . 

.” 21 U.S.C. § 877 sets forth the procedures for obtaining judicial review of Drug 

Enforcement Administration (DEA) decisions and provides that a petition for review 

must be filed “within 30 days after notice of the decision.” Publication of a decision in 

the Federal Register constitutes constructive notice of the order. Yakus v. United States, 

321 U.S. 414, 435 (1944). The DEA decision that is the subject of the instant petition for 

review was published in the Federal Register on August 12, 2016. 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

December 15, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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Petitioner Bryan Krumm filed his pro se petition for review on November 8, 2016, 

beyond the required 30-day limit. Mr. Krumm explains that he did not know that the 30-

day filing requirement applied. Ignorance of the law does not excuse prompt filing, 

however. See Marsh v. Soares, 223 F.3d 1217, 1220 (10th Cir. 2000). Moreover, there is 

a “longstanding treatment of statutory time limits for taking an appeal as jurisdictional.” 

Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 2150 (2007). 

Because the petition for review was filed beyond the 30-day statutory time limit, 

the court lacks jurisdiction over this petition for review.

DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Lindy Lucero Schaible

 Counsel to the Clerk

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