Legal Opinion
William E. Scarborough v. Office of Personnel Management
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 1984No. 82-8543PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner, William E. Scarborough, appeals the Merit Systems Protection Board’s (MSPB or Board) failure to award attorney fees after reversing the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) denial of petitioner’s voluntary disability retirement application. The issue presented is whether § 7701(g) of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, Pub.L. No. 95-454, 92 Stat. 1111 (CSRA), 1 authorizes the Board to award attorney fees to a government employee who successfully appeals the OPM’s unwarranted denial of his voluntary disability retirement application.
The OPM maintains that…
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