Macallister v. United States

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims concluded that it did not have jurisdiction over a pro se plaintiff’s claims that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had imposed an illegal “five-year commercialization rule” for grants under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The plaintiff alleged that he had been shut out of funding for an electric vehicle charger he had invented. The court found that the case presented “the quintessential claim under the Administrative Procedure Act” that should be brought in a federal district court and that it was not a cognizable claim under the Tucker Act. The court also said the claim for damages was outside the court’s jurisdiction. The court determined that it would not be appropriate for the court to initiate transfer to a district court but dismissed the complaint without prejudice to allow the plaintiff the opportunity to refile.