Court Opinion

ID: 9910293
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-12-15 15:00:53.247799+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:52:23.843995
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Case: 23-2053    Document: 13      Page: 1    Filed: 12/15/2023

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

                   ANJANETTE WICKS,
                       Petitioner

                              v.

       MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                     Respondent
               ______________________

                         2023-2053
                   ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. AT-0752-17-0749-I-1.
                 ______________________

    Before PROST, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     Because Anjanette Wicks asserted before the Merit
 Systems Protection Board that her removal was in viola-
 tion of federal antidiscrimination laws and indicated that
 she did not wish to abandon her discrimination claims on
 judicial review, this court directed the parties to show
 cause why this case should not be transferred. Ms. Wicks
 has not responded. The Board requests transfer to the
 United States District Court for the Middle District of Flor-
 ida. See ECF No. 12 at 6–7.
Case: 23-2053     Document: 13     Page: 2    Filed: 12/15/2023

 2                                              WICKS v. MSPB

     As respondent correctly notes, this is a “[c]ase[] of dis-
 crimination subject to the provisions of [5 U.S.C. §] 7702,”
 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2). We lack jurisdiction over such a case,
 which must instead be brought in federal district court.
 Perry v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd., 582 U.S. 420, 432 (2017). Un-
 der the circumstances, we find it appropriate to transfer
 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631 to the Middle District of Flor-
 ida, where the employment action occurred.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     The petition for review and all filings are transmitted
 to the United States District Court for the Middle District
 of Florida pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
                                               FOR THE COURT

 December 15, 2023
      Date