Court Opinion

ID: 2755750
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-11-26 17:01:18.703855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:08.484587
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NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                   ELBERT HICKS,
                      Petitioner,

                            v.

        UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE,
                   Respondent.
              ______________________

                       2014-3017
                 ______________________

   Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
Board in No. PH-3443-12-0485-I-1.
                ______________________

                     ON MOTION
                 ______________________

   Before LOURIE, MOORE, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
                       ORDER
   The United States Postal Service moves without
opposition to dismiss Elbert Hicks’s appeal from the Merit
Systems Protection Board (“Board”).
     Any petition for review of a Board decision must be
filed within 60 days after the Board issues notice of its
final order or decision. 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A). The
2                                                HICKS   v. USPS

petition for review must be received by this court before
the expiration of § 7703(b)(1)(A)’s filing deadline. Pinat v.
Office of Pers. Mgmt., 931 F.2d 1544, 1546 (Fed. Cir. 1991)
(citing Fed. R. App. P. 15(a), 25(a)). The 60-day period for
appeal is “statutory, mandatory, [and] jurisdictional.”
Monzo v. Dep’t of Transp., 735 F.2d 1335, 1336 (Fed. Cir.
1984).
    Mr. Hicks sought our review of Board adjudications in
two separate cases. He failed to file a petition for review
before the statutory deadline for either case. Because this
court did not receive a timely-filed petition for review, we
have no authority to decide his case.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1)   The motion is granted and the case is dismissed.
     (2)   Each side shall bear its own costs.

                                     FOR THE COURT

    November 26, 2014                /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
       Date                          Daniel E. O’Toole
                                     Clerk of Court

C: Elbert Hicks
   Daniel S. Herzfeld, Trial Attorney