Legal Opinion
Ames v. Nielsen
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 27, 2017No. Case No. 13–cv–001054 (APM)PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff Harriett Ames is the former Chief of the Personnel Security Branch within the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As head of the Personnel Security Branch, Plaintiff's responsibilities included adjudicating security clearances for employees. Following events that began with agency management stripping her Branch of some of its adjudicatory responsibilities and ended with her reassignment to a different unit, Plaintiff filed suit against Defendants under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection…
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