Case Name: Marilyn LEAK, Claimant-Appellant, v. Eric K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-01-31
Citations: 552 F. App'x 983
Docket Number: No. 2014-7015
Parties: Marilyn LEAK, Claimant-Appellant, v. Eric K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: Before RADER, Chief Judge, DYK and WALLACH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 552
Pages: 983–984

Head Matter:
Marilyn LEAK, Claimant-Appellant, v. Eric K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 2014-7015.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
Jan. 31, 2014.
Marilyn Leak, Clinton Township, MI, pro se.
Veronica Nicole Onyema, Trial Attorney, Y. Ken Lee, Esq., Attorney, Department of Justice, Christina Lynn Gregg, Counsel to Assistant General Counsel, Michael James Timinski, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, for Respondent-Appellee.
Before RADER, Chief Judge, DYK and WALLACH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
On November 25, 2013, the court directed the parties to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed as untimely. The Secretary responds and argues that Marilyn Leak's appeal should be dismissed as untimely. Leak has not responded.
The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims ("Veterans Court") entered judgment on July 18, 2011. That court received Leak's notice of appeal on October 11, 2013, 816 days after the date of judgment.
Any appeal from the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims must be received within 60 days of the date of entry of judgment. 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a); 28 U.S.C. § 2107(b); Fed. RApp. P. 4(a)(1). The statutory deadline for taking an appeal to this court is jurisdictional and mandatory. See Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 209, 127 S.Ct. 2360, 168 L.Ed.2d 96 (2007); see also Henderson v. Shinseki, — U.S.-, 131 S.Ct. 1197, 1204-05, 179 L.Ed.2d 159 (2011) (noting Congress's intent to impose the same jurisdictional restrictions on an appeal from the Veterans Court to the Federal Circuit as on an appeal from a district court to a court of appeals). Because Leak's appeal was filed outside of the statutory deadline for taking an appeal to this court, we must dismiss the appeal.
Accordingly,
It is Ordered That:
(1) The appeal is dismissed.
(2) Each side shall bear its own costs.