Case: 24-2133 Document: 3 Page: 1 Filed: 08/22/2024

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________ RICARDO J. CALDERON LOPEZ, dba Starlight Consulting Services, dba Starlight Entertainment Enterprises, Inc., dba Starlight Music Management, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR RECORDER OFFICE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, FRANCHISE TAX BOARD, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, Of- fice of the Secretary of State, Defendants ______________________ 2024-2133 ______________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in No. 1:19-cv-01139-UNA, Judge Col- leen Kollar-Kotelly. ______________________ PER CURIAM.

ORDER On May 17, 2019, the district court dismissed Ricardo J. Calderon Lopez’s complaint. Mr. Calderon Lopez Case: 24-2133 Document: 3 Page: 2 Filed: 08/22/2024

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appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Dis- trict of Columbia Circuit, which dismissed for failure to prosecute on October 17, 2019. On July 23, 2024, Mr. Cal- deron Lopez filed a notice of appeal directed to this court from a decision entered “05/17/2019” in the district court action. ECF No. 1-2 at 1. “[T]he timely filing of a notice of appeal in a civil case is a jurisdictional requirement,” Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205, 214 (2007), and this appeal, filed over five years after the district court’s May 17, 2019 decision, is clearly un- timely. See 28 U.S.C. § 2107; Fed. R. App. P. 4. For at least this reason, we and any other court of appeals lack juris- diction.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT: (1) The appeal is dismissed. (2) Each party shall bear its own costs.

FOR THE COURT

August 22, 2024 Date