OPINION

Ellsworth Pendleton, proceeding pro se, appeals an order of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania related to his civil rights action. We will affirm the District Court’s order.

Pendleton filed a complaint in District Court against defendants asserting various violations of equal protection of the law, the Pennsylvania Constitution, and state and federal statutes based on an alleged commercial lien that he had against the defendants. The District Court dismissed Pendleton’s complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, concluding that he had not cited statutes that would provide a basis for a civil cause of action, and that his claims were frivolous and so devoid of merit as not to involve a federal controversy-

Pendleton’s appeal of the District Court’s order was dismissed as untimely. Pendleton filed a motion in District Court seeking to change the date that his notice of appeal was docketed, asserting, as he had in his initial appeal and in his petition for rehearing, that his notice of appeal was post-marked on August 22, 2007, within the 30-day time to appeal. The District Court denied the motion, and this appeal followed.

The law of the case doctrine acts to preclude review of those legal issues that the court in a prior appeal actually decided, either expressly or by implication. In re City of Philadelphia Litig., 158 F.3d 711, 718 (3d Cir. 1998). Although we did not expressly discuss Pendleton’s argument that his original appeal was timely, when we denied his petition for rehearing, we rejected the argument by implication. The law of the case doctrine precludes review of the argument that Pendleton’s earlier appeal was timely, or that the District Court erred in denying Pendleton’s post-judgment motion, in light of the date that he mailed his notice of appeal to the District Court.

Accordingly, we shall affirm the District Court’s order. Although not required to do so, and concededly in dictum, we conclude that Pendleton’s original complaint had no merit.