Court Opinion

ID: 624920
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2012-03-08 19:59:14+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:16:25.010200
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

  Wintte]) ~tate5 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a); 28 U.S.C.
§ 2107(b); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(I). This filing period is
statutory, mandatory, and jurisdictional. Borples u. Rus-
sell, 551 U.S. 205 (2007) (the timely filing of a notice of
appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional requirement that
may not be waived); Henderson u. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct.
1197, 1204-05 (2011) (noting Congress's intent to impose
the same jurisdictional restrictions on an appeal from the
Veterans Court to the Federal Circuit as on an appeal
from a district court to a court of appeals).
   Mr. Boushley's appeal was not received by the court
within the statutory period. Thus, we must dismiss his
appeal.
    Accordingly,
    IT Is ORDERED THAT:
    (1) The appeal is dismissed.
    (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                    FOR THE COURT

    MAR 08 2012
                                    /s/ Jan Horbaly
       Date                         Jan Horbaly
                                    Clerk
cc: Charles Boushley, Jr.
    Christopher A. Bowen, Esq.
    s25                                               FILED
                                              U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR
                                                 THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT

                                                  MAR 082012
                                                    JAN HORBALY
                                                       CLERK