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Date Created: 2023-12-29 19:00:37.118256+00
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Case: 23-10758        Document: 00517016474             Page: 1      Date Filed: 12/29/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                       Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 23-10758
                                    Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                    ____________                             December 29, 2023
                                                                                Lyle W. Cayce
   Robert Kreb,                                                                      Clerk

                                                                    Plaintiff—Appellant,
                                            versus

   Integra Aviation, L.L.C., doing business as Apollo Med
   Flight; Apollo Med Flight, L.L.C.; Panavia Air Taxi,
   L.L.C., doing business as Haven Aero, L.L.C.; Haven Aero,
   L.L.C.; Flight Mechanix, L.L.C.; Young Firm, P.C.; Lee
   McCammon, Corporate Officer of Apollo; Thomas L. Klassen,
   Director of Operations; Joseph H. Belsha, III, Chief Pilot; Whitney
   Smith, Vice President of Human Resources; Travis Lamance, Director
   of Maintenance; Jeremi K. Young; Secretary, United States
   Department of Labor,

                                              Defendants—Appellees.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Northern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 2:23-CV-88
                     ______________________________

   Before Smith, Higginson, and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-10758      Document: 00517016474          Page: 2   Date Filed: 12/29/2023

                                    No. 23-10758

          Robert Kreb, a pilot, was fired by Integra Aviation after his repeated
   reports that his flight operation assignments did not comply with federal avi-
   ation regulations. He sued, pro se, various private parties and the Secretary
   of Labor, claiming violations of the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Wendell H.
   Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, and assert-
   ing libel, defamation, and slander under state law. Those claims were also
   pending before the Department of Labor. Kreb sought a temporary restrain-
   ing order to enjoin the DOL from initiating a review of his claims by an admin-
   istrative law judge.
          In a five-page order issued June 21, 2023, the district court denied the
   TRO and dismissed the action, without prejudice, for want of subject matter
   jurisdiction. We affirm that dismissal, essentially for the reasons assigned by
   the district court.
          That court properly determined that the Administrative Procedure
   Act does not authorize judicial interference with an agency action that is not
   “final.” The court distinguished Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC, 143 S. Ct. 890
   (2023), because it involved a structural, constitutional claim, which Kreb’s
   suit does not. The district court also observed that the claims related to the
   non-federal defendants “are not yet fit for adjudication in federal court.”
   And the court noted that the suit includes non-diverse parties.
          As carefully explained by the district court, the dismissal without pre-
   judice is correct and is AFFIRMED.

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