Flowers
Flowers v. Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Marshall Kenneth Flowers appeals pro se the district court’s order granting the Government’s Rule 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss Flowers’s contract action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, as well as its denial of his motion to amend his complaint. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . “We review de novo a district court’s determination that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction” and “review for clear error the district court’s findings of fact relevant to [that] determination.” H2O Houseboat Vacations Inc. v. Hernandez, 103 F.3d 914, 916 (9th Cir.1996). We review the district court’s denial of Flowers’s motion for leave to amend for an abuse of discretion. Gompper v. VISX, Inc., 298 F.3d 893, 898 (9th Cir.2002). We affirm.
Flowers sought to compel the Government to reissue certain savings bonds that Flowers had purchased and registered in the names of Flowers’s daughters, Tameea and Letina.
The district court properly determined that it lacked jurisdiction to hear Flowers’s claim for the single savings bond in issue that was worth more than $10,000, since the United States Court of Federal Claims *553 has exclusive jurisdiction over such claims.…