Case Name: James F. NEWPORT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Paul M. Igasaki, ARB Chair; Honorable Daniel J. Solomon, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-03-16
Citations: 367 F. App'x 729
Docket Number: No. 09-1986
Parties: James F. NEWPORT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Paul M. Igasaki, ARB Chair; Honorable Daniel J. Solomon, Appellees.
Judges: Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 367
Pages: 729–730

Head Matter:
James F. NEWPORT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor; Paul M. Igasaki, ARB Chair; Honorable Daniel J. Solomon, Appellees.
No. 09-1986.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: Feb. 26, 2010.
Filed: March 16, 2010.
James F. Newport, Blue Springs, MO, pro se.
Jeffrey P. Ray, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO (Matt J. Whitworth, Acting U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellees.
Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.
. Hilda Solis has been appointed to serve as Secretary of Labor and is substituted as respondent pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c).
. Paul M. Igasaki has been appointed to serve as Chair of the Department of Labor Administrative Review Board and is substituted as respondent pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c).

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
James Newport previously filed with the Department of Labor (DOL) a 42 U.S.C. § 5851 whistleblower complaint, which — on the recommendation of an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) — was dismissed by the DOL Administrative Review Board as a sanction for Newport's improper conduct. Newport then brought this mandamus action in the district court, seeking to have the ALJ recused and his administrative action reinstated. The district court dismissed the mandamus action upon concluding it lacked subject matter jurisdiction, and Newport now appeals that dismissal.
After careful de novo review, see LeMay v. U.S. Postal Serv., 450 F.3d 797, 799 (8th Cir.2006), we agree with the district court's decision, see 42 U.S.C. § 5851(c)(l)-(2) (orders under § 5851(b) may be appealed to United States court of appeals for circuit in which violation allegedly occurred; where such review of order could have been obtained, order "shall not be subject to judicial review in any criminal or other civil proceeding"); cf. Anderson v. Sullivan, 959 F.2d 690, 692 (8th Cir.1992) (in Medicare context, agreeing with district court that general federal subject matter jurisdiction was precluded where administrative remedies had not been exhausted); Hatcher v. Heckler, 772 F.2d 427, 432 (8th Cir.1985) ("[T]he writ of mandamus 'is intended to provide a remedy for a plaintiff only if he has exhausted all other avenues of relief and only if the defendant owes him a clear nondiscretion-ary duty.' " (quoting Heckler v. Ringer, 466 U.S. 602, 616, 104 S.Ct. 2013, 80 L.Ed.2d 622 (1984))).
Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
.The Honorable David Gregory Kays, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.