Leon H. White v. Warren M. Bloomberg, Postmaster, United States Post Office Department to Be Known as the United States Postal Service

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This suit by a wrongfully discharged postal employee raises an ancillary question of procedure under the Back Pay Act of 1966, 5 U.S.C. § 5596. Four months after the district court awarded plaintiff a summary judgment for reinstatement and back pay, the Postal Service attempted to raise an issue of failure to mitigate damages, contending that the period of entitlement to back pay should be reduced because plaintiff had not made reasonable efforts to obtain substitute employment. The district judge refused to reopen the judgment and added post-judgment interest to the…