92 F.3d 1207
NOTICE: Federal Circuit Local Rule 47.6(b) states that opinions and orders which are designated as not citable as precedent shall not be employed or cited as precedent.  This does not preclude assertion of issues of claim preclusion, issue preclusion, judicial estoppel, law of the case or the like based on a decision of the Court rendered in a nonprecedential opinion or order.Michael W. BLODGETT, Plaintiff-Appellant,andAudry Florence and Philip F. Florence, individually and onbehalf of the Empire Paper Company Pension Planand Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants,andMichael W. Blodgett, as trustee for the T.G. Morgan, Inc.,Defined Benefit Pension Plan;  Diane S. Blodgett,individually and as beneficiary of the T.G. Morgan, Inc.,Defined Benefit Pension Plan;  Warren Hartje and JeanHartje, individually and for the Warren Hartje Sales CompanyEmployee Pension Plan and Trust;  and Eleanor Carslon, Plaintiffs,v.The UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 95-5067, 95-5085.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
July 12, 1996.
ORDER

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The appellant having failed to file the brief required by Federal Circuit Rule 31(a) within the time permitted by the rules, it is


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ORDERED that the notice of appeal be, and the same hereby is, DISMISSED, for failure to prosecute in accordance with the rules.

