“Serving those who serve in government”
From Alaska comes this interesting Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decision, involving the Superintendent of the Sitka National Historic Park. She was reassigned from her position to a job as an "Alaska Native American Liaison" in Anchorage, which is 500 miles...
Summary judgment is one of the most powerful tools in procedural legal process. The concept may sound rather foreign, but it is straightforward. A court is authorized to grant a "summary judgment" when the party bringing the case fails to alleged a genuine issue of a...
In all types of litigation, there words that have a special meaning and they are called terms of art. This can be very important if your employment is controlled by a contract, or by other special rules, such as those that govern employees of the federal government....
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had a 26 percent increase in misconduct over the last two year. The finding was reported by the General Accountability Office (GAO), the agency responsible for oversight of much of what goes on in federal agencies....
In the government, there can be many types of scandals. Some, like Watergate, contain multiple incidents of legal violations made at the highest levels. Others should only be called scandal in quotes. The GSA conference overspending "scandal" appears to have been one...