Court Opinion

ID: 9556463
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Date Created: 2023-08-17 15:00:53.659759+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:34.644676
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Case: 23-1521    Document: 11     Page: 1   Filed: 08/17/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                 D’ANDREA L. HARRIS,
                      Petitioner

                             v.

      MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                    Respondent
              ______________________

                        2023-1521
                  ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. CH-0752-16-0501-I-1.
                 ______________________

      Before CHEN, MAYER, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
     Because D’Andrea L. Harris pursued discrimination
 claims before the Merit Systems Protection Board and in
 her opening brief here, the court directed Ms. Harris to
 show cause why her case should not be transferred to a
 United States district court. She has not responded.
     We have jurisdiction to review final decisions from the
 Board, except in “[c]ases of discrimination subject to the
 provisions of [5 U.S.C. § ]7702,” 5 U.S.C. §§ 7703(b)(2),
 (b)(1)(A). Those cases, which involve appeals to the Board
Case: 23-1521     Document: 11      Page: 2    Filed: 08/17/2023

 2                                              HARRIS v. MSPB

 and allegations of covered discrimination, 5 U.S.C.
 § 7702(a)(1), belong in district court. 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2);
 Perry v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd., 582 U.S. 420 (2017). Though
 “explicit waiver of [ ] discrimination claims . . . effectively
 converts the case to a standard appeal of the adverse per-
 sonnel action,” Harris v. SEC, 972 F.3d 1307, 1318 (Fed.
 Cir. 2020), Ms. Harris has not provided such waiver. We
 therefore find it appropriate to transfer this case pursuant
 to 28 U.S.C. § 1631 to the United States District Court for
 the Northern District of Illinois.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     The petition for review and all the filings are transmit-
 ted to the United States District Court for the Northern
 District of Illinois pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
                                         FOR THE COURT

 August 17, 2023                         /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
     Date                                Jarrett B. Perlow
                                         Clerk of Court