Sacco v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER OF DISMISSAL

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Geraldine Sacco and Karen Vesterby, seek attorney’s fees they incurred while litigating adverse personnel determinations before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). Plaintiffs previously sought these fees before the MSPB under the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA), but the MSPB denied their requests because the Plaintiffs did not qualify as prevailing parties, and in Plaintiff Sacco’s case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the MSPB’s ruling. Plaintiffs then changed their tack and…