Legal Opinion
Williams v. Perdue
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 7, 2019No. Case No. 1:18-cv-01157 (TNM)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. McFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
Federal courts, like museums, have different portals for different people. A hapless tourist who enters through the employees' door may be ejected from a museum, even if he were otherwise entitled to be there. Similarly, a plaintiff who comes into federal court through the federal removal process may find his case thrown out, even if it could have properly arrived there another way. Such is the plight of Melvin Williams, who sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, alleging the Department discriminated and…
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