Court Opinion

ID: 9391183
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-01 15:00:57.363742+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:39.848601
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-1567    Document: 17     Page: 1   Filed: 05/01/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

             JAMES NATHANIEL DOUSE,
                 Claimant-Appellant

                             v.

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

                        2023-1567
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 21-6678, Judge Michael P. Allen.
                 ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

                        ORDER
     James Nathaniel Douse moves “to close and or dismiss”
 this case, ECF No. 15 at 1, which this court construes as a
 motion to voluntarily dismiss this appeal pursuant to Rule
 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. The Sec-
 retary of Veterans Affairs responds stating he does not op-
 pose each party bearing its own costs.
    Upon consideration thereof,
Case: 23-1567    Document: 17      Page: 2   Filed: 05/01/2023

 2                                      DOUSE   v. MCDONOUGH

     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The motion is granted. The appeal is dismissed.
     (2) Each side to bear its own costs.
                                     FOR THE COURT

  May 1, 2023                        /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                            Peter R. Marksteiner
                                     Clerk of Court

 ISSUED AS A MANDATE: May 1, 2023