Rogue Riverkeeper v. Bean

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Rogue Riverkeeper v. Bean

Opinion

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

ROGUE RIVERKEEPER, A PROJECT OF THE KLAMATH SISK_IYOU WILDLANDS C'ENTER, Plaintiff-Appellee,

V.

DONALD BEAN, Defendant-Appellant.

2012-1107

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Case N0. 11-CV-3013, Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke.

ON MOTION

Bef0re LOURIE, SCHALL, and DYK, Circuit Juclges.

PER CURIAM. 0 R D E R

Rogue Riverkeeper moves to dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction Donald Bean opposes. Rogue Riverkeeper supplements its motion, and Bean opposes

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the supplementation. Bean further moves to reform the caption

Rogue Riverkeeper argues that this court lacks juris- diction over this appeal because the order challenged is not final or appealable Bean appeals the district c0urt’s order denying his request to transfer the case to the United States Court of Federal Claims. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(d)(4)(A), this court has jurisdiction of an appeal from an interlocutory order of a district court“granting or denying, in whole or in part, a motion to transfer an action to the United States Court of Federal Claims."

` Summary affirmance of a case “is appropriate, inter alia, when the position of one party is so clearly correct as a matter of law that no substantial question regarding the outcome of the appeal exists.” Joshuo u. United States, 17 F.3d 378, 380 (Fed. Cir. 1994). We find that summary affirmance is appropriate here. Bean appeals the district court’s denial of transfer to the Court of Federal Claims, but the dispute below presents no issue over which the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction.

The complaint below includes citizens’ enforcement claims under the Clean Water Act and Resource Conser- vati0n and Recovery Act. These claims do not fall within the jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims. The district court did not err in denying transfer to the Court of Federal Claims.

l Accordingly, I'r Is ORDERED THAT:

(1) The district court’s denial of transfer to the Court of Federal Claims is summarily afiirmed.

(2) Each side shall bear its own costs.

(3) All pending motions are moot.

JUL 20 2012

Date

cc: Donald Bean

Ralph O. Bloemers, Esq.

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Reference

Status
Unpublished