Legal Opinion
Mercier v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 15, 2015No. 2014-5074PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.
In a final decision dated February 27, 2014, the United States Court of Federal Claims dismissed the complaint of certain nurses employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (“the agency”). The nurses claimed entitlement to overtime pay under a statutory provision which requires the agency to compensate “officially ordered or approved” overtime work. 38 U.S.C. § 7453(e)(1). The trial court dismissed the nurses’ claim because they did not allege that the agency “expressly directed” their overtime. Mercier v. United States, 114 Fed.Cl. 795, 802 (2014). Because the…
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