Court Opinion

ID: 2709760
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-08-05 18:05:20.267018+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:14:30.330060
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Case: 14-142    Document: 5    Page: 1    Filed: 08/05/2014

          NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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               IN RE MARK C. JACKSON,
                        Petitioner.
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                        2014-142
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    On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United
States Court of Federal Claims in No. 1:14-cv-00277-NBF,
Judge Nancy B. Firestone.
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                     ON MOTION
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   Before REYNA, BRYSON, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
                       ORDER
    Mark C. Jackson petitions for a writ of mandamus re-
lating to his complaint brought before the United States
Court of Federal Claims.
    On July 23, 2014, Jackson filed a notice of appeal,
docketed as 2014-5121, from the judgment of the Court of
Federal Claims dismissing his complaint for lack of juris-
diction. A party who seeks a writ bears the burden of
proving that he has no other means of obtaining the relief
desired. Mallard v. U.S. Dist. Court, 490 U.S. 296, 309
Case: 14-142         Document: 5   Page: 2   Filed: 08/05/2014

2                                               IN RE JACKSON

(1989). Because Jackson may raise arguments concerning
his case in his appeal, mandamus relief is not appropriate.
      Accordingly,
      IT IS ORDERED THAT:
      (1) The petition for a writ of mandamus is denied.
      (2) All pending motions are denied as moot.

                                      FOR THE COURT

                                      /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
                                      Daniel E. O’Toole
                                      Clerk of Court

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