Case Name: John BERRY, Director, Office of Personnel Management, Petitioner, v. Tony D. HOPPER, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-02-08
Citations: 496 F. App'x 88
Docket Number: No. 2013-3052
Parties: John BERRY, Director, Office of Personnel Management, Petitioner, v. Tony D. HOPPER, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 496
Pages: 88–89

Head Matter:
John BERRY, Director, Office of Personnel Management, Petitioner, v. Tony D. HOPPER, Respondent.
No. 2013-3052.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
Feb. 8, 2013.
Allison Kidd-Miller, United States Department of Justice, Steven E. Abow, Esq., Attorney, Robert J. Girouard, Elaine Kap-lan, Joyce Harris Tounkara, Kathie A. Whipple, Esq., Office of Personnel Management, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.
Andres Myles Grajales, American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Tony D. Hopper, Crittenden, KY, pro se.

Opinion:
ORDER
The court reviews the recent docketing of this petition for review and notes that it was docketed in error.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 7703(d)(1), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management may obtain review of a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board by filing a petition for judicial review. Such a matter is to be docketed by this court as a Miscellaneous Docket matter, and if the court in its discretion grants the petition for judicial review, then the court dockets the matter as a regular petition. It appears that this matter should have been first docketed as a Miscellaneous Docket matter. Respondent Tony D. Hopper has responded to the petition in 2013-3052, but the court recently rejected an entry of appearance by the Merit Systems Protection Board because this matter was improperly docketed as a regular petition and the Board was not named as a party. Pursuant to Section 7703(d)(1), the Board has the right to appear in the proceeding.
Accordingly,
It Is Ordered That:
This petition is dismissed as improperly docketed, and reopened as Mise. No. 145. Once that matter is opened on CM/ECF, the parties should refile the relevant docket entries within 14 days of such action on CM/ECF. In Mise. No. 145, the Board may file its response to the petition for permission to appeal -within 21 days of docketing of Mise. No. 145. Thereafter, the court will consider the petition for judicial review pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 7703(d)(1).