Case Name: John J. VOSS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Albany VA Medical Center, Department of Veteran Affairs, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-01-13
Citations: 360 F. App'x 239
Docket Number: No. 08-5488-cv
Parties: John J. VOSS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Albany VA Medical Center, Department of Veteran Affairs, Defendants-Appel-lees.
Judges: PRESENT: WILFRED FEINBERG, ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Circuit Judges and T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 360
Pages: 239–240

Head Matter:
John J. VOSS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Albany VA Medical Center, Department of Veteran Affairs, Defendants-Appel-lees.
No. 08-5488-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Jan. 13, 2010.
John J. Voss, Jr., Albany, NY, pro se.
Andrew T. Baxter, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York; Paula Ryan Conan, Assistant United States Attorney, Syracuse, NY, for Ap-pellees.
PRESENT: WILFRED FEINBERG, ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Circuit Judges and T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
The Honorable T.S. Ellis, III, of the United States District Court for the District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Appellant John J. Voss, Jr., pro se, appeals the district court's sua sponte dismissal of his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history of the case, as well as the issues on appeal.
We review a district court's rulings on subject matter jurisdiction de novo, see S.E.C. v. Berger, 322 F.3d 187, 191 (2d Cir.2003), bearing in mind that a pro se plaintiffs complaint should be liberally construed to raise the strongest argument that it suggests, see Graham v. Henderson, 89 F.3d 75, 79 (2d Cir.1996). Under the Federal Rules, if a court "determines at any time that it lacks subject-matter jurisdiction, the court must dismiss the action." Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(h)(3); accord Cave v. E. Meadow Union Free School Dist., 514 F.3d 240, 250 (2d Cir.2008)("If a court perceives at any state of the proceedings that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction, then it must take proper notice of the defect by dismissing the action.").
Here, the district court properly determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Voss's complaint, and we affirm the district court's judgment for substantially the same reasons as articulated by that court. Moreover, we have considered Voss's remaining claims of error and determined them to be without merit; accordingly, there is no basis on which to challenge the judgment of the district court.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.