Ivan Ficken, individually, and as father of and best friend of and on behalf of C.I. a minor child, Appellant v. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary, United States Department of State, et al., Appellees.

No. 06-5322.United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Filed On: August 22, 2007.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This case is unpublished as indicated by the issuing court.]

BEFORE: Ginsburg, Chief Judge, and Henderson and Griffith, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam.

ORDER
Upon consideration of the court’s order filed June 5, 2007, directing appellant to show cause why the remainder of the appeal (challenging the portions of the August 7, 2006 order denying reconsideration of the denial of a motion for an order allowing appellant to attend the American International School of Bucharest (“AISB”), and denying the motion for leave to correct any defect in the service of process of any official of the AISB), should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction or summarily affirmed, and the response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the order to show cause be discharged. It is.

FURTHER ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that the remainder of the appeal be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Neither of the above-referenced portions of the August 7, 2006 order is final or immediately appealable under any of the exceptions to the final order rule. See Banks v. Office of Senate Sergeant-At-Arms and Doorkeeper ofthe U.S. Senate, 471 F.3d 1341, 1344-45 (D.C. Cir. 2006) (citing 28 U.S.C. § 1291; Stringfellow v. Concerned Neighbors in Action, 480 U.S. 370, 380 (1987); Richardson-Merrell, Inc. v. Koller, 472 U.S. 424, 430 (1985); Flanagan v. U.S., 465 U.S. 259, 264 (1984); Cohen v.Beneficial Indus. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541, 546 (1949)).

Pursuant to D.C. Circuit Rule 36, this disposition will not be published. The Clerk is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate herein until seven days after resolution of any timely petition for rehearing or petition for rehearing en banc. See Fed.R.App.P. 41(b); D.C. Cir. Rule 41.

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