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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

________________________ No. 14

- 10782 Non

- Argument Calendar

________________________ D.C. Docket No. 0:13

- cv - 60990

- RNS

TARIKU KEIRA, Plaintiff

- Appellant, REGINA TURNER, Plaintiff,

versus JOHN BERRY, Director in and for United States Office of Personne l Management, FEDERAL EMPLOYEE’ S GROUP LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, All Chief Executives Officers/Chairperson/President, METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, All Chief Executive Officers/Chairperson/President, Defendants

- Appellees.

Case: 14-10782 Date Filed: 09/03/2014 Page: 1 of 42 ________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

________________________ (September 3, 2014) Before TJ OFLAT , PRYOR and FAY , Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Tariku Keira appeals pro se t he dismissal with prejudice of his third complaint against John Berry, the Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management ; Federal Employee’s Group Life Insurance Company ; and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company . The district court dismissed Keira’s complaint against the Federal Life Insurance Company because it was a fictitious entity and dismissed with prejudice the compla int against Berry and Met Life as barred by res judicata. We affirm. In 2008, Keira filed a complaint against the Office of Personnel Management and Met Life challenging the distribution of t he proceeds of a life insurance policy issued to his brother und er the Federal Employees’ Group Life
Insurance Act

. See 5 U.S.C. § 8701 et seq
. The district court identified Keira as a serial litigant and dismissed Keira’s complaint with prejudice for failing to comply with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 8(a) and 10(b) and for failing to comply with an order of contempt , which the district court entered earlier whe n Keira was

Case: 14-10782 Date Filed: 09/03/2014 Page: 2 of 43 involved in an employment dispute with the United States Postal Service. The order of contempt required Keira to post a bond of $1,500 i n co nnection with all
pro se filings in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida involvi ng his employment dispute and to file a copy of the order with every future complaint that he filed

. Keira appeal ed and challenged the imposition of the bond . W e affirmed on the ground that the district court did not enforce the bond requirement

. Keira v.
U

nited S tates , 351 Fed. App ’ x 343 , 345 ( 11 th Cir

. 2009 ). In 2010, Keira and five other persons filed a second complaint against the Office of Personnel Management and Metropolitan Life that c hallenged the
distribution of the proceeds of his brother’s life insurance policy. The district court dismissed Keira’s complaint because he fail ed to comply with the order of contempt , and w e affirmed

. Ke ira v. United States , 4 00 Fed. App ’ x 477 ( 11 th Cir

. 2010 ). The district court did not err by dismissing Keira’s third complaint as barred by res judicata. Under the doctrine of res judicata , a claim is barred by earlier litigation if : “(1) there is a final judgment on the merits; (2) the decision was rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction; (3) the parties, or those in privity with them, are identical in both suits; and (4) the same cause of action is involved in both cases.” Ra gsdale v. Rubbermaid, Inc. , 193 F.3d 1235, 1238 (11th Cir. 1999)

. Keira does not dispute that his earlier cases were resolved by a court of

Case: 14-10782 Date Filed: 09/03/2014 Page: 3 of 44 competent jurisdiction , involved the same parties , and concerned the same subject matter. Keira argues that the di smissal of his complaint in 2010 for failure to comply with the order of contempt is not a final judgment on the merits , but the dismissal of a c omplaint for failure to comply with a court order “operates as an adjudication on the merits,” Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b).
We AFFIRM the dismissal of Keira’s complaint with prejudice. Case: 14-10782 Date Filed: 09/03/2014 Page: 4 of 4