Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. Otero
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 24, 2017No. 16-1572PPublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is a federal-sector employment discrimination case, in which the plaintiffs have attempted to improve their lot by invoking extravagant theories of liability. The plaintiffs’ theories run headlong into an impenetrable barrier forged by the combination of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA), see 5 U.S.C. § 1201 (and scattered sections of Title 5 of the U.S. Code), and Title VII, see 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17. The plaintiffs’ claims cannot breach this barrier either by cloaking them in the raiment of the Bivens doctrine, see Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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