Legal Opinion
Vandesande v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 23, 2012No. 2011-5012PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PLAGER, Circuit Judge.
This is a dispute between the Government and a federal employee over whether a “Stipulation Agreement Regarding Damages,” resulting from a settlement of an earlier personnel case, is a contract, a consent decree, or perhaps both. The label we put on it dictates the court that will have jurisdiction to hear the case on its merits, a necessary predicate to a judicial determination of whether the Stipulation Agreement (hereafter “Stipulation Agreement” or “Agreement”) was breached by the Government as the employee alleges. This dispute is yet another example of the…
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