Legal Opinion

Joycelyn Jacobs v. Department of Justice

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided September 15, 1994No. 17-2257PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PLAGER, Circuit Judge.

Joycelyn Jacobs appeals the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) sustaining her removal from her position as a legal secretary for the Department of Justice (Agency). 1 We reverse.

BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Jacobs has a total of thirteen years in federal service. Jacobs worked as a legal secretary for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 1976 until her resignation in 1984. She was rehired by that office in 1988, and worked there until 1991, when she was transferred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of…

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