Court Opinion

ID: 9909853
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-12-14 16:01:12.097661+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:50:17.145695
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Case: 23-2400    Document: 17     Page: 1   Filed: 12/14/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
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                    FONDA WICKS,
                    Plaintiff-Appellant

                             v.

      METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
               Defendant-Appellee
             ______________________

                        2023-2400
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Northern District of Texas in No. 4:21-cv-01275-O, Judge
 Reed O’Connor.
                 ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

    Before PROST, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
     Fonda Wicks moves unopposed to transfer her appeal
 from the judgment of the United States District Court for
 the Northern District of Texas denying her claims for death
 benefits under her late husband’s insurance plan.
Case: 23-2400    Document: 17      Page: 2    Filed: 12/14/2023

 2                  WICKS v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.

     We agree that this appeal does not fall within the lim-
 ited authority that Congress granted this court to review
 decisions of federal district courts. See generally 28 U.S.C.
 § 1295. Lacking jurisdiction, we may transfer to another
 court where “the action or appeal could have been brought
 at the time it was filed.” 28 U.S.C. § 1631. Here, as Ms.
 Wicks correctly notes, the appropriate court is the United
 States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
      The motion is granted. This appeal and all transmit-
 tals are transferred to the United States Court of Appeals
 for the Fifth Circuit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
                                               FOR THE COURT

 December 14, 2023
      Date