Court Opinion

ID: 9891386
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-18 15:01:43.925346+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:50:02.687896
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Case: 23-1857    Document: 19     Page: 1   Filed: 10/18/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                DONALD MERTON COLE,
                   Plaintiff-Appellant

                             v.

         DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY,
                Defendant-Appellee
              ______________________

                        2023-1857
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Southern District of Florida in No. 0:23-cv-60666-BB,
 Judge Beth Bloom.
                 ______________________

 PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
     Donald Merton Cole brought this suit against the De-
 partment of the Treasury and Janet Yellen seeking
 $25,000,000,000 in damages relating to allegations of
 fraud, money laundering, and “International Terrorism.”
 Compl. at 3. The district court dismissed as frivolous. Mr.
 Cole filed an appeal seeking review in this court. Because
 the case did not appear to fall within our jurisdiction, we
 directed the parties to show cause why this case should not
 be dismissed or transferred to another court.
Case: 23-1857      Document: 19      Page: 2     Filed: 10/18/2023

 2                                             COLE v. TREASURY

      This court’s jurisdiction to review decisions of federal
 district courts is generally limited to 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); or certain dam-
 ages claims against the United States “not exceeding
 $10,000 in amount,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2), see 28 U.S.C.
 § 1295(a)(2). Mr. Cole’s complaint raises none of those
 types of claims. Nor, after careful review of Mr. Cole’s var-
 ious filings, which raise no cognizable argument that the
 district court erred in dismissing his complaint, do we find
 it in the interest of justice to transfer this case to another
 court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631. See Britell v. United
 States, 318 F.3d 70, 75 (1st Cir. 2003) (“[I]t is in the interest
 of justice to dismiss [a frivolous appeal] rather than to keep
 it on life support (with the inevitable result that the trans-
 feree court will pull the plug).” (citation omitted)).
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The appeal is dismissed.
     (2) All pending motions are denied.
     (3) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                            FOR THE COURT

 October 18, 2023                           /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
      Date                                  Jarrett B. Perlow
                                            Clerk of Court