Amshey v. United States

OPINION

HARKINS, Senior Judge:

In these consolidated cases, plaintiffs are 465 employees of the Treasury Department in the Uniformed Division (UD) of the United States Secret Service. Proceedings have been exceptionally contentious, and, as a result, unnecessarily protracted.

On January 22,1987, counsel’s Joint Preliminary Status Report listed 15 issues generated by the complaints. On counsel’s recommendation proceedings were bifurcated, with liability issues to be determined in Stage 1, and damages deferred to Stage 2. Five years later, proceedings still are in Stage 1. One reason for the slow…