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Date Created: 2023-04-21 14:00:53.219583+00
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Case: 23-1258     Document: 17      Page: 1    Filed: 04/21/2023

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

                     FAYE R. HOBSON,
                         Petitioner

                               v.

              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,
                       Respondent
                 ______________________

                         2023-1258
                   ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. CH-1221-15-0470-W-1.
                 ______________________

     Before DYK, TARANTO, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                          ORDER
      Faye R. Hobson has filed a petition for review of the
 Merit Systems Protection Board’s final October 4, 2022, de-
 cision. In response to this court’s February 16, 2023, order
 to show cause, the Department of Defense urges dismissal
 as untimely. Faye R. Hobson opposes dismissal.
     Under 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A), a petition to review a
 final decision by the Board must be filed “within 60 days
 after the Board issues notice of the final . . . decision,” and
 this deadline is mandatory and jurisdictional, Fedora v.
Case: 23-1258     Document: 17    Page: 2    Filed: 04/21/2023

 2                                        HOBSON   v. DEFENSE

 Merit Sys. Prot. Bd., 848 F.3d 1013, 1016 (Fed. Cir. 2017).
 See ECF No. 1-2 at 20 (Board decision noting that the peti-
 tion for review “must be received by th[is] court within 60
 calendar days” (emphases in original)). In this case, the
 deadline for Ms. Hobson to file her petition for review was
 December 5, 2022, * but her petition was not received by
 this court until December 7, 2022.
     Ms. Hobson argues that her petition is timely because
 she mailed it before the deadline. She cites to 27 C.F.R.
 § 70.305 for the proposition that her “[t]imely mailing”
 should be “treated as [a] timely filing.” ECF No. 12 at 2.
 However, that regulation applies to the Alcohol and To-
 bacco Tax and Trade Bureau, not to filings with this court.
 For petitions filed under 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A), we have
 held (consistent with Federal Rule of Appellate Proce-
 dure 25(a)(2)(A)(i)) that “filing requires actual receipt by
 the court, not just timely mailing.” Fedora, 848 F.3d at
 1016. Because Ms. Hobson’s petition was filed outside the
 statutory deadline, we dismiss.
     Accordingly,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The petition for review is dismissed.
     (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.
                                    FOR THE COURT

 April 21, 2023                     /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
      Date                          Peter R. Marksteiner
                                    Clerk of Court

     *   Because the 60-day deadline fell on December 3,
 2022, which was a Saturday, Ms. Hobson’s petition was due
 no later than Monday, December 5, 2022. See Fed. R. App.
 P. 26(a)(1).