Federal Circuits, 5th Cir. (October 07, 1999)
Docket number: 98-31406
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* Pursuant to 5 TH C IR . R. 47.5, the Court has det ermined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5 TH C IR .
R. 47.5.4. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT No. 98-31406 Summary Calendar PATRICIA A. CADE, Plaintiff-Appellant, VERSUS WILLIAM HENDERSON, POSTMASTER GENERAL, UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (98-CV-740-E) October 6, 1999 Before DAVIS, EMILIO M. GARZA, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.PER CURIAM: * Patricia Cade appeals the district courtÂ’ s dismissal of her complaint challenging her adverse personnel action by the USPS for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The court also denied CadeÂ’s request for a new trial and transferred her request for judicial review of the Merit Systems Protection BoardÂ’s (MSPB) order to the Federal Circuit. On appeal, Cade makes two arguments. First, she asserts that the district court had subject ma tter jurisdiction over her demotion by the USPS because she presented a “mixed case” to the MSPB by arguing that the demotion was discriminatory. Second, she argues that the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over her other claims of sexual harassment and retaliation because the EEO C never decided her appeal and therefore her administrative remedies are considered exhausted.The district court found that CadeÂ’s complaint seeking review of the MSPBÂ’s decision was not a “mixed case” because she failed to assert any discrimination claims with the MSPB at any stage of the proceedings. Our review of the record confirms that Cade failed to allege any discrimination on the form used to appeal her adverse personnel action to the MSPB. She left blank Question #23 which specifically asked whether she c laimed that the matter appealed involved discrimination. Also, her own Statement of Facts and Issues to the MSPB Administrative Judge lacked any allegations of discrimination.We also agree with the district court that if Cade intended to assert a separate Title VII claim (apart from her request for review of the M SPB decision), the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because she failed to show that she exhausted her administrativ e remedies, as required by Title VII. The EEOC dismissed Cade§ 1614.302(b) (1998) when an employee files both an EEO complaint and an MSPB appeal on the same matter, § 1614.107(d) (1998).For the reasons given by the district court in its September 23, 1998 ruling and for these additional reasons, we affirm.AFFIRMED.