Buess v. United States

NOTE: ThiS order is nonprecedential United States Court of AppeaIs for the FederaI Circuit DAVID LEE BUESS, Plain,tiff-Appellan,t, ' AND RODNEY DALE CLASS, Plaintiff-Appellant, _ V. UNITED STATES AND INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, * Defendcmts-Appellees, AND STATE OF OI~IIO, Defen,dant-Appellee, AND STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Defen,dan,t-Appellee, AND GASTON COUNTY TAX DEPARTMENT, Defen,dant-Appellee, AND REGINALD J. ROUTSON, Defen,dant-Appellee. BUESS V. US 2 2011-1318 Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in case no. 09-CV-2151, Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. ON MOTION Before NEwMAN, ScHALL, and DYK, Circuic Judges. PER CUR1AM. 0 R D E R The United States and the Internal ReVenue SerVice (US) move to dismiss David Lee Buess's and Rodney Dale Class’s (Buess) appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The complaint filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia essentially includes claims of tax fraud against the United States. The dis- trict court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted After dismissal, Buess filed a notice of appeal, identifying this court, and the appeal was docketed. lt appears that the appeal was also docketed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of C0111mbia. This is a court of limited jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. § 1295. Based on our reView, it is clear that the district court's jurisdiction did not arise in whole or in part under the laws governing this court's appellate jurisdiction. In these circumstances, we determine that it is unnecessary to transfer this case to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, because that court has al- ready docketed the appeal in this matter. See 28 U.S.C. § ¢ 3 BUESS V. US 1631 (court may, if it is in the "interest of justice," trans- fer an action to a court “in which the action or appeal could have been brought at the time it was filed or no- ticed"). Accordingly, lT lS ORDERED THATZ (l) The motion to dismiss is granted (2) Each side shall bear its own costs in this appeal. FoR THE CoURT gm 7 2011 s /s/ Jan Horbaly Date J an Horbalyp Clerk cc: David Lee Buess F5LED Rodney Dale Class 5-3 COURT 0F APPEALS FOR George A. McAndrews Esq. THE FEDERN' C'RcL"T John Schumann, }l`»sq. JU|_ 0 7 2011 Just1n M1chael Fl1nt, Esq. Grady L. Balentine, Jr., Esq. mm Aaron D. Epstein, Esq. c ALv s24 1ssUE1) As A MANDATE; 311 7 fm