Leggitte v. United States

OPINION and ORDER

BLOCK, Judge.

Plaintiff, Ricky B. Leggitte, proceeding pro se, was employed as a social worker at the Department of Veteran Affairs’s (“VA”) Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (“CAVHCS”) from 1990 until 2005. While employed at CAVHCS, plaintiff was frequently on-call twenty-four hours per day, working what he describes as “odd tours of duty.” Compl. at ¶ 2. After failing to obtain additional compensation directly from the VA, plaintiff filed this lawsuit on May 9, 2011. Along with his complaint, Leggitte has filed an application to proceed informa pauperis.1

In his…