ORDER

The court reviews the recent docketing of this petition for review and notes that it was docketed in error.

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 7703(d)(1), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management may obtain review of a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board by filing a petition for judicial review. Such a matter is to be docketed by this court as a Miscellaneous Docket matter, and if the court in its discretion grants the petition for judicial review, then the court dockets the matter as a regular petition. It appears that this matter should have been first docketed as a Miscellaneous Docket matter. Respondent Tony D. Hopper has responded to the petition in 2013-3052, but the court recently rejected an entry of appearance by the Merit Systems Protection Board because this matter was improperly docketed as a regular petition and the Board was not named as a party. Pursuant to Section 7703(d)(1), the Board has the right to appear in the proceeding.

Accordingly,

It Is Ordered That:

This petition is dismissed as improperly docketed, and reopened as Mise. No. 145. Once that matter is opened on CM/ECF, the parties should refile the relevant docket entries within 14 days of such action on CM/ECF. In Mise. No. 145, the Board may file its response to the petition for permission to appeal -within 21 days of docketing of Mise. No. 145. Thereafter, the court will consider the petition for judicial review pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 7703(d)(1).