Court Opinion

ID: 9893723
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Date Created: 2023-10-30 14:00:49.628049+00
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Case: 23-2059     Document: 10     Page: 1   Filed: 10/30/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                GUILLERMO A. MONTERO,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                              v.

        UNITED STATES, DANIEL SANTILLI,
               Defendants-Appellees
              ______________________

                        2023-2059
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Southern District of Florida in No. 1:22-cv-20168-RNS,
 Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr.
                 ______________________

 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     Having considered the parties’ responses to this court’s
 August 3, 2023, show cause order, we now transfer the case
 to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Cir-
 cuit under 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
    Guillermo A. Montero brought this suit against the
 United States in the United States District Court for the
 Southern District of Florida seeking in excess of
 $20,000,000 for alleged fraud and violations of the Takings
Case: 23-2059       Document: 10    Page: 2     Filed: 10/30/2023

 2                                               MONTERO v. US

 Clause of the Fifth Amendment as well as state law. The
 district court dismissed, and Mr. Montero appeals.
      This appeal does not fall within the limited authority
 that Congress granted this court to review decisions of dis-
 trict courts under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a). In particular, alt-
 hough we have jurisdiction to review decisions that involve
 certain claims against the United States “not exceeding
 $10,000 in amount,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2); see
 § 1295(a)(2), Mr. Montero seeks more than that amount.
 We therefore lack jurisdiction. See Bragg v. Keohane, 820
 F.2d 402, 403–04 (Fed. Cir. 1987). Where we lack jurisdic-
 tion, and if it is in the interest of justice, we shall transfer
 a case to an appropriate court. See 28 U.S.C. § 1631. Here,
 the appropriate regional circuit for review of Mr. Montero’s
 appeal is the United States Court of Appeals for the Elev-
 enth Circuit. 28 U.S.C. §§ 41, 1291.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
    The appeal and all its filings are transferred to the
 United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
                                          FOR THE COURT

 October 30, 2023                          /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
      Date                                 Jarrett B. Perlow
                                           Clerk of Court