Court Opinion

ID: 9960127
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-04-15 15:01:38.668658+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:12.612517
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Case: 24-1254    Document: 13     Page: 1   Filed: 04/15/2024

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

      JEFFREY SOLOMON K. CHIJIOKE-UCHE,
                Plaintiff-Appellant

                             v.

     EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC,
                  Defendant

  AMERICREDIT FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., dba
                GM Financial,
              Defendant-Appellee
            ______________________

                        2024-1254
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Eastern District of Pennsylvania in No. 2:19-cv-04006-
 GJP, Judge Gerald J. Pappert.
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      JEFFREY SOLOMON K. CHIJIOKE-UCHE,
                Plaintiff-Appellant

                             v.

         GENERAL MOTORS, aka GM Buick,
                  Defendant
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                GENERAL MOTORS LLC,
                   Defendant-Appellee
                 ______________________

                        2024-1255
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Eastern District of Pennsylvania in No. 2:20-cv-00216-
 GJP, Judge Gerald J. Pappert.
                 ______________________

      Before CHEN, LINN, and HUGHES, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     In response to the court’s January 18, 2024 show cause
 order, Jeffrey Solomon K. Chijioke-Uche urges this court to
 retain jurisdiction over these appeals. Appellees have not
 responded.
     Dr. Chijioke-Uche filed the underlying complaints in
 the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
 Pennsylvania asserting claims under the Fair Credit Re-
 porting Act (“FCRA”) and the Magnuson-Moss Warranty
 Act (“MMWA”). He now appeals from the district court’s
 orders granting in part the defendants’ motions to strike
 his proposed narrative testimony and trial exhibits.
     Contrary to Dr. Chijioke-Uche’s assertion, these ap-
 peals fall outside the limited authority that Congress
 granted this court to review decisions of federal district
 courts: cases arising under the patent laws, see 28 U.S.C.
 § 1295(a)(1); civil actions on review to the district court
 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, see
 § 1295(a)(4)(C); and cases involving certain damages
 claims against the United States “not exceeding $10,000 in
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 amount,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2), see 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(2);
 28 U.S.C. § 1292(c)(1).
     Instead, any appeal in these matters would belong in
 the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
 See 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We deem it the better course to trans-
 fer to that court, where Dr. Chijioke-Uche may raise,
 among other things, his arguments regarding 28 U.S.C.
 § 1292. 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     This matter and all its filings are transferred to the
 United States Court of Appeals for Third Circuit pursuant
 to 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
                                            FOR THE COURT

 April 15, 2024
     Date