Court Opinion

ID: 9926636
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Date Created: 2024-01-25 16:01:41.656775+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:00.002868
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Case: 24-1025    Document: 12     Page: 1   Filed: 01/25/2024

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                 PATRICK TAKEUCHI,
                      Petitioner

                             v.

            DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY,
                     Respondent
               ______________________

                        2024-1025
                  ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. SF-0752-17-0288-I-1.
                 ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

    Before DYK, BRYSON, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
     Patrick Takeuchi submits a motion for leave to proceed
 in forma pauperis. The Department of the Army moves to
 transfer this case to the United States District Court for
 the District of Hawaii. ECF No. 7 at 1. The Department
 states that the Merit Systems Protection Board consents.
 Mr. Takeuchi opposes transfer.
Case: 24-1025     Document: 12     Page: 2    Filed: 01/25/2024

 2                                           TAKEUCHI v. ARMY

     Mr. Takeuchi filed the underlying appeal at the Board,
 arguing that his removal was due to, among other things,
 sex and age discrimination. The Board dismissed the ap-
 peal, concluding that it lacked jurisdiction because Mr.
 Takeuchi had already filed a civil action in Hawaii assert-
 ing that his removal was the result of discrimination.
     “Cases of discrimination subject to the provisions of [5
 U.S.C.] § 7702” (i.e., mixed cases) belong in district court.
 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2); Perry v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd., 582 U.S.
 420, 432 (2017); 5 U.S.C. § 7702(a)(1). Whatever the merits
 of Mr. Takeuchi’s appeal, as the administrative judge here
 noted, Mr. Takeuchi brought a “mixed case appeal given its
 substance,” ECF No. 6 at 14, and his filings in this court
 indicate that he seeks judicial review of his discrimination
 claims. We accordingly grant the motion and transfer pur-
 suant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631 to the District of Hawaii, where
 the employment action occurred.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     The motion to transfer is granted to the extent that this
 case and all transmittals are transferred, pursuant to 28
 U.S.C. § 1631, to the United States District Court for the
 District of Hawaii.
                                               FOR THE COURT

 January 25, 2024
      Date