Opinion
2021-166
08-19-2021
In re: MICHAEL OTTO HARTMANN, Petitioner
This order is nonprecedential.
On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
ON PETITION
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
Michael Otto Hartmann submits a petition for a writ of mandamus, attempting to invoke this court's "original jurisdiction" to assert various claims, including contract and federal securities claims.
The All Writs Act provides that the federal courts "may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law." 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a). The Act is not itself a grant of jurisdiction. Clinton v. Goldsmith, 526 U.S. 529, 534-35 (1999). This court does not have original jurisdiction over Mr. Hartmann's claims. Nor does his submission reference any agency or trial court action that would eventually be subject to this court's jurisdiction on direct appeal that would give us authority to consider a mandamus request. We therefore dismiss his petition.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT:
The petition is dismissed.