Aviles v. Lutz

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Almario Aviles, is a former medical technologist with the Indian Health Service (IHS), a federal agency under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). See 25 U.S.C. §§ 1601-1680j. Between September 1986 and July 1987, Aviles instituted two civil and five administrative suits against HHS, IHS and a myriad of federal employees alleging discrimination, defamation and retaliatory discharge arising out of the government’s failure to promote him and subsequent termination of his employment. In January 1988, Aviles agreed to…