Ronald Keith Watkins v. District of Columbia

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
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RONALD KEITH WATKINS,
Petitioner
v.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
Respondent
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2025-1882
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Appeal from the DC Office of Risk Management in No.
C-GL-25-03659.
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ON MOTION
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Before PROST, CHEN, and HUGHES, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
O R D E R
Ronald Keith Watkins seeks review of a June 2, 2025
letter from the District of Columbia, Office of Risk Manage-
ment and of a June 17, 2025 email from the General Coun-
sel of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections.
ECF No. 1-2 at 1–3. In response to this court’s show cause
order, Mr. Watkins urges us to retain jurisdiction or,
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alternatively, to transfer to the United States Court of Ap-
peals for the District of Columbia Circuit or the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals. ECF No. 11 at 6, 7. The Dis-
trict of Columbia responds urging dismissal. Mr. Watkins
moves for leave to file a reply. ECF No. 16.
This is a court of limited jurisdiction which does not
include authority to directly review the letter or email here.
See 28 U.S.C. § 1295; Practice Notes to Fed. Cir. R. 15 (not-
ing examples of other review statutes). While 28 U.S.C.
§ 1631 authorizes this court to transfer an action or appeal
to another federal court where it could have been brought
in the first instance, on the papers submitted, Mr. Watkins
has not shown his case could have been brought in either
the D.C. Circuit or the D.C. Court of Appeals, or that we
even have the authority to transfer this case to the latter
tribunal, see § 1631 (incorporating 28 U.S.C. § 610)).
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) ECF No. 16 is granted only to the extent that the
reply is accepted for filing.
(2) The appeal is dismissed.
(3) All other pending motions are denied.
(4) Each side shall bear its own costs.
December 9, 2025
Date
FOR THE COURT
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