Court Opinion

ID: 9411627
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Date Created: 2023-07-27 15:01:17.446113+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:41:08.481961
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Case: 23-1656    Document: 10     Page: 1   Filed: 07/27/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                     DELIA GARCIA,
                    Claimant-Appellant

                             v.

   DENIS MCDONOUGH, Secretary of Veterans Af-
                     fairs,
              Respondent-Appellee
             ______________________

                        2023-1656
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 18-6558.
                 ______________________

    Before LOURIE, HUGHES, and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit
                       Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
     In response to this court’s May 9, 2023, show cause or-
 der, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs urges dismissal of
 this appeal as untimely. Delia Garcia responds, requesting
 “an opportunity [to] lay out [her] entire case.” ECF No. 9
 at 3.
     The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
 Claims entered judgment in this case on September 7,
Case: 23-1656    Document: 10       Page: 2    Filed: 07/27/2023

 2                                      GARCIA v. MCDONOUGH

 2022. In March 2023, the Veterans Court received Ms.
 Garcia’s notice of appeal. *
     To be timely, a notice of appeal must be received by the
 Veterans Court within 60 days of the entry of judgment.
 See 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a); see also 28 U.S.C. § 2107(b); Fed.
 R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B). Like appeals from district courts, the
 statutorily prescribed time for filing appeals from the Vet-
 erans Court to this court is mandatory and jurisdictional,
 meaning that we cannot take account of individual circum-
 stances for the untimely filing. See Wagner v. Shinseki, 733
 F.3d 1343, 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2013); see also Henderson v.
 Shinseki, 562 U.S. 428, 438–39 (2011) (indicating jurisdic-
 tional restrictions on the time for taking an appeal under
 section 7292(a)). Because Ms. Garcia’s notice of appeal was
 not filed within 60 days of any final judgment or order of
 the Veterans Court, we must dismiss the appeal.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The appeal is dismissed.
     (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                       FOR THE COURT

 July 27, 2023                         /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
     Date                              Jarrett B. Perlow
                                       Clerk of Court

     *  The notice indicated Ms. Garcia was seeking re-
 view of a final judgment or order entered on “2/26/23,”
 though the Veterans Court docket in the identified proceed-
 ing does not reflect any entry between November 8, 2022,
 and March 2023.