over that indi vidual, but it has long been held that the actions of a party cannot accord a court subject matter jurisdiction where that jurisdiction is otherwise lacking.” See Uram v. United States, 216 Ct.Cl. 418, 420-21, 1978 WL 8423 (1978) (order) (citations omitted). Because of the limited subject matter jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims, no claim before that court was directed against Cadillac. From the perspective of the Court of Federal Claims, Cadillac was at most a nominal defendant. In any event, we are unaware of any case in which a court has held that a third-party defendant’s status as a party at trial automatically confers Article III standing on such a party seeking appeal. Cf. Diamond v. Charles, 476 U.S. 54, 68, 106 S.Ct. 1697, 1706, 90 L.Ed.2d 48 (1986) (<HOLDING>). We hold that Cadillac does not have standing
recognizing that standing is an essential component of our appellate jurisdiction and permitting party to appeal only after determining that they had met the requirements of article iii standing holding that rule 5212a1 was inapplicable because the wouldbe intervenor failed to show that any missouri statute unconditionally authorized it to intervene as a matter of right holding that a motion to intervene was permitted even though the intervenor filed her motion eighteen days before trial where the intervenor herself could have brought an independent action to seek the same relief as she was within the twoyear statute of limitations commencing on the date of her automobile accident holding an intervenor in the underlying district court case lacked article iii standing to pursue an appeal where the only remaining controversy in the suit was a dispute over the award of attorneys fees because the fee award was wholly unrelated to the subject matter of the litigation holding that a partys status as an intervenor at trial was insufficient alone to confer standing to appeal absent the defendants participation because the intervenor failed independently to satisfy the requirements of article iii