Gaskins

This civilian pay case is before the court on respondents’ motion to transfer the case from the appeal docket to the regular docket, to dismiss the named respondents as improper parties, and to substitute the United States as sole defendant. Plaintiff has filed no response. The decision turns on whether plaintiffs claim is governed by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, Pub. L. No. 95-454, 92 Stat. 1111. If the claim is governed by the Reform Act, the case *919belongs on the appeal docket. Ct. Cl. Rule 171(a). If it is governed by prior law, it belongs on the regular docket with the United…