Opinion
2012-7154
11-21-2012
MARILYN F. VAILATI, Claimant-Appellant, v. ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Respondent-Appellee.
NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in case no. 08-2454, Judge Lawrence B. Hagel.
ON MOTION
Before RADER, Chief Judge, LOURIE and SCHALL, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.
ORDER
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs moves to dismiss this appeal as untimely.
On April 25, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Veterans Court) entered judgment in Marilyn F. Vailati's case. According to the Veterans Court's docket, the court received Vailati's notice of appeal on July 10, 2012, 76 days after the date of judgment.
To be timely, a notice of appeal must be filed with the Veterans Court within 60 days of the entry of judgment. See 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a); 28 U.S.C. § 2107(b); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1). The statutory deadline for taking an appeal to this court is jurisdictional, mandatory, and cannot be waived. See Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007).); see also Henderson v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197, 1204-05 (2011) (the language of Section 7292(a) "clearly signals an intent" to impose the same jurisdictional restrictions on an appeal from the Veterans Court to the Federal Circuit as imposed on appeals from a district court to a court of appeals). Because Vailati's appeal as to the underlying judgment was filed outside of the statutory deadline for taking an appeal to this court, we must dismiss the appeal.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) The motion is granted.
(2) The appeal is dismissed.
(3) Each side shall bear its own costs.
FOR THE COURT
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Jan Horbaly
Clerk
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