civil-service

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-807 David Stanley v. Scott Morgan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-service delaware-state-college-v-ricks employment-discrimination finality-of-action grievance-procedure statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Supreme Court's pronouncement in Delaware State College v. Ricks, 449 U.S. 250, 101 S. Ct. 498, 66 L. Ed. 2d 431 (1980) — i.e., that "t…
24-5914 Anthony Perry v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. District of Columbia 2024-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-service discrimination-claim due-process jurisdictional-review mixed-case-appeal 1. Whether, without having been provided an evidentiary hearing nonfrivolous allegation of coercion before the MSPB, a procedure required by law, the …
24A332 Martin Akerman v. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Federal Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied administrative-procedure civil-service due-process first-amendment judicial-review petition-rights Injunction: Whether the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has unlawfully abridged the petitioner's First Amendment r…
24A147 Martin Akerman v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete administrative-review civil-service interlocutory-appeal mspb-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation whistleblower-protection Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can be properly named as the respondent in appeals to the Federal Circuit when the appeal concerns t…
23-955 Robert M. Miller v. Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, et al. District of Columbia 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-7703 civil-service equitable-powers interim-relief mixed-case preliminary-injunction pro-se-litigant whistleblower Petitioner prevailed in an adverse action appeal when MSPB ordered respondent to cancel his indefinite suspension. When respondent petitioned for revi…
23-868 Charles Flynn v. Department of State Federal Circuit 2024-02-12 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) active-duty civil-service civilian-employee differential-pay federal-employment national-emergency statutory-interpretation Whether a federal civilian employee called or ordered to active duty under a provision of law during a national emergency is entitled to differential …
23-6543 Odeiu Joy Powers v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-service due-process federal-civil-service judicial-discretion preference-eligible pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness sua-sponte-dismissal unilateral-ban veteran 1. Must rulings reflect material facts on the record? Neither Petitioner nor Respondent dispute that Petitioner was a tenured civil service employee f…
22-74 Allen Patterson v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-07-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-service civil-service-commission government-agency misconduct ny-statute resignation termination voluntary-resignation Is it legal for a government agency in the United States of America to convert an already accepted immediate voluntary resignation into a termination …
22-15 Sean David Duckett, Sr. v. Jefferson Parish Department of Public Works-Streets Louisiana 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived civil-service civil-service-board classified-employees constitutional-rights due-process employee-termination loudermill notice-requirement personnel-rules pre-deprivation-notice procedural-due-process termination Whether Jefferson Parish's Personnel Rules of the Classified Service Rule X, which puts no requirement upon its Appointing Authorities to give any pre…
21-1109 Joseph P. Carson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-service constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-recusal merit-systems-protection-board recusal whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) violated Mr. Carson's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteen Amendments to th…
21-315 Jacquelyn Bouazizi v. Hillsborough County Civil Service Board, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Relisted (2) age attorney-negligence civil-service eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-pay equitable-tolling fmla gender pro-se-litigation race retaliation Should the Doctrine of Equitable Tolling be expanded to include a situation in which a pro se party previously represented by counsels, having receive…
20-345 Deborah Katz Pueschel v. Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Transportation, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-16 Denied Response Waived civil-service constitutional-rights disability-benefits first-amendment free-speech government-restrictions public-office standing Does the rule in U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, 413 U.S. 548 (1973), that the First Amendment does not prevent the feder…
19-7586 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission Pennsylvania 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service due-process employment-law free-speech mootness public-employment ripeness standing statutory-interpretation veterans-rights voluntary-cessation IS THE UNDERLYING CASE MOOT?
19-911 Ivon Castro v. Dina Simon, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Deputy Commissioner, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-service civil-service-law disciplinary-proceeding due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment probationary-period New York State Courts have consistently annulled determinations of administrative agencies that terminated the employment of competitive class civil s…
19-781 Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. Massachusetts 2019-12-18 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First Amendment rights?
19-671 Daniel A. Grover v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response Waived administrative-deference administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation civil-procedure civil-service due-process federal-regulations regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies interpretation of their own regulations must continue in the light of the admission by the O…
19-5935 Rachel C. Brown v. Civil Service Commission Michigan 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law appeals civil-rights civil-service civil-service-commission due-process hearing long-term-disability procedural-rights property-interest Is Petitioner, and All Others Similarly Situated, entitled to a hearing and due process in long-term disability (LTD) appeals? Subsidiary Questions: I…
18-657 Justin Grimsrud v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-service drug-testing due-process employment employment-law evidence property-interest property-rights Petitioner, a tenured civil servant, was terminated from his position following a positive drug test. Insisting he had never used illegal drugs and th…