Court Opinion

ID: 2743187
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Date Created: 2014-10-16 20:01:15.796705+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:33:52.581763
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Case: 14-3170      Document: 14      Page: 1     Filed: 10/16/2014

                NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                    ______________________

                    RICHIE LEON HALL,
                         Petitioner,

                                v.

       MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                    Respondent.
               ______________________

                          2014-3170
                    ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. DC-3443-14-0725-I-1.
                 ______________________

                        ON MOTION
                    ______________________

                           ORDER
     The Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) moves to
 reform the official caption to name the Merit Systems
 Protection Board (“Board”) as the respondent, and for an
 extension of time for the Board to file its response brief 21
 days from the later of the date of disposition of this motion
 or the date that Richie Leon Hall submits the filing fee.
 Hall opposes.
Case: 14-3170         Document: 14   Page: 2    Filed: 10/16/2014

 2                                   HALL   v. MSPB

     Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(2), the Board is desig-
 nated as the respondent when the Board’s decision con-
 cerns the procedure or jurisdiction of the Board. The
 employing agency is designated as the respondent when the
 Board reaches the merits of the underlying case. Here, the
 Board dismissed Richie Leon Hall’s petition for lack of
 jurisdiction. Thus, the Board is the proper respondent in
 this petition for review.
       Accordingly,
       IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The motion to reform the caption is granted. The
 revised official caption is reflected above.
    (2) The motion for an extension of time to file the re-
 sponse brief is granted to the extent that the Board
 should calculate the due date for its brief from the date
 Hall pays the filing fee.
                                       FOR THE COURT

                                       /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
                                       Daniel E. O’Toole
                                       Clerk of Court
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