Court Opinion

ID: 9407222
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-07-06 13:01:05.174256+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:37.414995
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-1632    Document: 6     Page: 1   Filed: 06/28/2023

          NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                  SOMONA LOFTON,
                   Plaintiff-Appellant

                            v.

                   UNITED STATES,
                   Defendant-Appellee
                 ______________________

                       2023-1632
                 ______________________

   Appeal from the United States Court of Federal Claims
in No. 1:21-cv-01348-MBH, Senior Judge Marian Blank
Horn.
                 ______________________

PER CURIAM.
                       ORDER
   Following this court’s May 9, 2023, order to show cause,
we dismiss this appeal as untimely.
    On March 16, 2023, Somona Lofton filed her notice of
appeal from the final judgment of the United States Court
of Federal Claims entered in June 2021. A party must file
an appeal within 60 days of the final judgment or order be-
ing appealed from the Court of Federal Claims. See 28
U.S.C. §§ 2107, 2522; Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B); Fed. Cir.
R. 1(a)(1)(C).   This time limit is “a jurisdictional
Case: 23-1632      Document: 6     Page: 2     Filed: 06/28/2023

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requirement” and “not subject to equitable tolling.”
Marandola v. United States, 518 F.3d 913, 914 (Fed. Cir.
2008) (citation omitted). Here, Ms. Lofton did not appeal
within the required 60 days, and thus we lack jurisdiction.
    Accordingly,
    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
    (1) The appeal is dismissed.
    (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.
                                       FOR THE COURT

June 28, 2023                          /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
   Date                                Jarrett B. Perlow
                                       Acting Clerk of Court