Legal Opinion

Bloch v. Executive Office of the President

District Court, E.D. Virginia

Decided February 9, 2016No. Case No. 1:15-cv-1146PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

T. S. Ellis, III, United States District Judge

Plaintiff Scott J. Bloch is the former United States Special Counsel, the head of the United States Office of Special Counsel (“OSC”), an independent agency of the federal government responsible for protecting federal employees from prohibited personnel policies such as reprisal for whistleblowing.1 In his fifteen-count Amended Complaint, plaintiff alleges that he was removed from office as Special Counsel in violation of constitutional and statutory law as the result of a wide-ranging conspiracy by various federal agencies and…

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