Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-02-06 15:01:18.793165+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:07:35.183056
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Case: 24-1248   Document: 4      Page: 1   Filed: 02/06/2024

          NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                VANESSA B. JACKSON,
                  Claimant-Appellant

                            v.

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

                       2024-1248
                 ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 22-3548, Judge Amanda L. Mere-
dith.
                ______________________

                     ON MOTION
                 ______________________

    Before LOURIE, PROST, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
                       ORDER
   The Secretary of Veterans Affairs moves to dismiss this
appeal for lack of jurisdiction on timeliness grounds.
Vanessa B. Jackson has not responded to the motion.
Case: 24-1248      Document: 4    Page: 2     Filed: 02/06/2024

2                                     JACKSON v. MCDONOUGH

    The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
Claims entered final judgment in this case on August 28,
2023. The Veterans Court received Ms. Jackson’s notice of
appeal 92 days later on November 28, 2023.
    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); Fed. Cir. R. 1(a)(1)(D). Like appeals
from district courts, the statutorily prescribed time for fil-
ing appeals from the Veterans Court is jurisdictional. 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 jurisdictional restrictions on the time for taking
an appeal under section 7292(a)). Because Ms. Jackson’s
notice of appeal was not filed within 60 days of the judg-
ment of the Veterans Court, this court lacks jurisdiction
and must dismiss.
    Accordingly,
    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
    (1) The motion is granted. The appeal is dismissed.
    (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                               FOR THE COURT

 February 6, 2024
      Date