Legal Opinion
Fornaro, Carmine v. James, Kay Coles
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 26, 2005No. 04-5297PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Circuit Judge.
A group of eight plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of retired, disabled federal law enforcement officers and firefighters sued the Office of Personnel Management. They claimed that class members were entitled to higher disability benefits, based on recent decisions from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and sought an order requiring OPM to notify class members and pay them the higher benefits. The plaintiffs looked to the Administrative Procedure Act for the waiver of sovereign immunity that would allow their suit to proceed in district court, but we…
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