In re FORD

Case: 25-146 Document: 3 Page: 1 Filed: 09/10/2025

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

______________________ In Re LARRY D. FORD, Petitioner ______________________ 2025-146 ______________________

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in No. 4:22-cv-02162, Judge Andrew S. Hanen.

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ON PETITION AND MOTION

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Before LOURIE, PROST, and CHEN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.

ORDER

Larry D. Ford’s petition for a writ of mandamus, alleg- ing that “states’ governors and attorney generals” are vio- lating federal laws and his civil rights, ECF No. 2 at 16 (capitalization omitted), follows a prior unsuccessful suit in a Texas federal district court raising similar allegations and the dismissal of a substantially identical petition filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir- cuit.

The All Writs Act provides that the federal courts “may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their Case: 25-146 Document: 3 Page: 2 Filed: 09/10/2025 2 IN RE FORD respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a). As that statute makes clear, however, the Act is not itself a grant of juris- diction. See Clinton v. Goldsmith, 526 U.S. 529, 534–35 (1999). Our jurisdiction to review decisions of the federal district courts extends only to patent cases, see 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(1); civil actions on review to the district court from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, see id. § 1295(a)(4)(C); or certain damages claims against the United States “not exceeding $10,000 in amount,” id. § 1346(a)(2), see id. § 1295(a)(2). This case clearly falls out- side that jurisdiction. Under the circumstances, we deem it appropriate to dismiss rather than transfer the petition.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT:

The petition is dismissed, and any pending motion is denied.

FOR THE COURT September 10, 2025

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