Johnson v. U.S. Postal Service

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential United States Court of AppeaIs for the Federal Circuit DAWN SHIPLEY-JOHNSON, Petitioner, 4 V. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Respondent. 2010-3172 _ Petiti0n for review of the Merit SysteIns Protection B0ard in case n0. NY3443100129-I-1. ON MOTION Before GAJA_RsA, ScHALL, and MooRE, Circu,it Judges. PER CURiAM. 0 R D E R We treat DaWn Ship1ey-Johnson’s correspondence re- ceived on December 9, 2010, as a motion for reconsidera- tion of the court’s order dismissing her appeal as untimely Up0n consideration thereof RUSSELL V. US 2 motion to strike. The court considers whether these appeals should proceed as companion cases. Regarding Russell’s motion to consolidate, because briefing is complete in appeal no. 2010-1498, we deem it the better course to treat the appeals as companion cases. Because the cases will be treated as companion cases, there is no need to reach Russell’s alternative motion to include in the joint appendix in 2010-1498 copies of documents that pertain to 2011-1230. Similarly, because the cases will be heard together, there is no need to include in the 2010-1498 joint appendix documents re- lated to the 2011-1230 case. Thus, we grant the motion to strike without prejudice to Russell including the docu- ments in the joint appendix for 2011-1230. Accordingly, _ rr is oRDEREn ram ` (1) Russell’s motion to consolidate is denied. (2) Appeals 2010-1498 and 2011-1230 will be treated as companion cases. The appeals will be briefed sepa- rately. HoweVer, the cases will be argued together before the same merits panel. (3) Russell’s motion to enlarge the record is denied as moot. (4) The United States’ motion to strike is granted Russell is directed to file a corrected joint appendix in 2010-1498 within 14 days of the date of filing of this order. (5) A copy of this order shall be transmitted to the merits panel assigned to hear these cases.