Court Opinion

ID: 9410071
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-07-20 13:01:28.028357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:55.224760
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Case: 23-1660     Document: 12      Page: 1     Filed: 07/10/2023

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

                      JULIO C. CASAS,
                         Petitioner

                               v.

     DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
                  Respondent
            ______________________

                         2023-1660
                   ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. DA-0752-17-0182-I-1.
                 ______________________

    Before LOURIE, HUGHES, and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit
                       Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                          ORDER
     On March 22, 2023, this court received Julio C. Casas’s
 petition for review from the January 19, 2023, final deci-
 sion of the Merit Systems Protection Board. Having con-
 sidered the parties’ responses to this court’s show cause
 order, the court dismisses the petition as untimely.
     Under 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A), a petition to review a
 final decision by the Board must be filed “within 60 days
 after the Board issues notice of the final . . . decision.” This
Case: 23-1660     Document: 12     Page: 2     Filed: 07/10/2023

 2                                                CASAS   v. DHS

 statutory filing deadline is jurisdictional and not subject to
 equitable exceptions. Fedora v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd., 848
 F.3d 1013, 1016 (Fed. Cir. 2017). Thus, although Mr.
 Casas contends that his failure to timely file is excusable
 due to a purported miscalculation of the filing deadline,
 this court may only consider whether his petition was
 timely and cannot toll based on his personal circumstances.
 Because the petition was filed outside the 60-day deadline,
 this court lacks jurisdiction and must dismiss.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The petition for review is dismissed.
     (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                       FOR THE COURT

 July 10, 2023                         /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
     Date                              Jarrett B. Perlow
                                       Clerk of Court