Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-23 16:01:17.510178+00
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Case: 23-1973    Document: 19      Page: 1    Filed: 10/23/2023

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

            ENAMUL HAQE CHOWDHURY,
                    Petitioner

                              v.

         MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                       Respondent
                 ______________________

                         2023-1973
                   ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. DC-3443-21-0635-I-1.
                 ______________________

                       ON MOTION
                   ______________________

 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     Following review of the parties’ responses 1 to this
 court’s show cause order regarding this court’s jurisdiction,
 we dismiss.

     1  The court construes Enamul Haqe Chowdhury’s
 motion received on August 9, 2023 (ECF No. 17-1), as a
Case: 23-1973     Document: 19     Page: 2    Filed: 10/23/2023

 2                                        CHOWDHURY v. MSPB

     Mr. Chowdhury filed an appeal with the Merit Systems
 Protection Board based on denial of a grant application.
 The administrative judge dismissed for lack of jurisdiction,
 and, on January 23, 2023, the Board dismissed his petition
 for review as untimely. On May 28, 2023, this court re-
 ceived Mr. Chowdhury’s petition for review identifying a
 Board decision purported to be issued on “03/28/2023.”
     “[A] petition to review a final order or final decision of
 the Board shall be filed . . . within 60 days after the Board
 issues notice of the final order or decision of the Board,” 5
 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A). This deadline is jurisdictional and
 cannot be extended based on individual circumstances. Fe-
 dora v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd., 848 F.3d 1013, 1016 (Fed. Cir.
 2017). Here, the petition for review was filed more than 60
 days after the Board’s decision. And although Mr. Chow-
 dhury’s petition seeks review of a Board decision from
 March 28, 2023, no such decision appears to exist. We
 therefore dismiss. 2
     Accordingly,

 request to permit him to file documents with the court via
 email. The court grants that request only to the extent that
 his response to the show cause order (ECF No. 17-2) is ac-
 cepted. Mr. Chowdhury should comply with the rules of
 this court, which generally prohibit filing of documents via
 email, Fed. Cir. R. 25(a)(1) (“[E]mail transmission of docu-
 ments will not be accepted.”), and his election to file
 through the court’s electronic filing system (CM/ECF).
     2   Mr. Chowdhury’s submissions to this court indicate
 that he raised some kind of discrimination claim before the
 Board, ECF No. 6, but, as the Board notes, the record does
 not support any contention that this is a mixed case under
 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2).
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 CHOWDHURY v. MSPB                                          3

    IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) ECF No. 17-1 is granted only to the extent that
 ECF No. 17-2 is accepted as Mr. Chowdhury’s response to
 the court’s show cause order. The motion is otherwise de-
 nied.
    (2) The petition for review is dismissed.
    (3) All pending motions are denied.
    (4) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                       FOR THE COURT

 October 23, 2023                      /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
      Date                             Jarrett B. Perlow
                                       Clerk of Court