Court Opinion

ID: 9953624
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Date Created: 2024-03-22 16:01:40.705548+00
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Case: 24-1292    Document: 7-1     Page: 1   Filed: 03/22/2024

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

    United States Court of Appeals
        for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                 CHARLIE J. JACKSON,
                   Claimant-Appellant

                             v.

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

                        2024-1292
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 23-3623, Chief Judge Margaret C.
 Bartley, Judge William S. Greenberg, and Judge Joseph L.
 Toth.
                 ______________________

  Before DYK, WALLACH, and CUNNINGHAM, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     In response to the court’s January 22, 2024 show cause
 order, Charlie J. Jackson urges the court to excuse his un-
 timely-filed notice of appeal. The Secretary of Veterans Af-
 fairs has not responded.
     The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans
 Claims entered final judgment in this case on October 6,
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 2                                    JACKSON v. MCDONOUGH

 2023. The Veterans Court received Mr. Jackson’s notice of
 appeal 74 days later on December 19, 2023.
     To be timely, a notice of appeal must be filed within 60
 days of the entry of judgment. See 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a); 28
 U.S.C. § 2107(b); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1)(B); Fed. Cir. R.
 1(a)(1)(D). As with appeals from district courts, the statu-
 torily prescribed time for filing appeals from the Veterans
 Court is jurisdictional, meaning that we cannot take ac-
 count of individual circumstances 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 jurisdictional restrictions on the time
 for taking an appeal under section 7292(a)). Because Mr.
 Jackson’s notice of appeal was not filed within 60 days of
 the judgment of the Veterans Court, this court lacks juris-
 diction and must dismiss. *
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The appeal is dismissed.

     *    The court notes that Mr. Jackson’s notice of appeal,
 filed with the Veterans Court within 30 days after the time
 to appeal expired, appears to argue that he was not timely
 served with the Veterans Court’s judgment. ECF No. 1-2
 at 1. We deem it appropriate to transmit this order to the
 Veterans Court for it to consider whether Mr. Jackson’s
 submission could be construed as a motion for that court to
 extend the time to appeal and, if so, whether such relief is
 appropriate. See 28 U.S.C. § 2107(c), Fed. R. App. P.
 4(a)(5); cf. 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a).
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 JACKSON v. MCDONOUGH                                        3

     (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.
     (3) The Clerk of Court is directed to transmit a copy of
 this order and ECF No. 1-2 to the United States Court of
 Appeals for Veterans Claims for its consideration.
                                                FOR THE COURT

 March 22, 2024
     Date

 cc: United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims