Hall v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

FUTEY, Judge.

Before the Court is a dispute over the extent of court leave to which certain federal employees are entitled. Under the federal court leave statute, qualifying employees who are “summoned ... by a court ... to serve” as jurors are entitled to paid leave for the duration of their service. 5 U.S.C. § 6322(a) (2006). Plaintiff, Dawn Hall, claims entitlement to such leave for service on a year-long panel of the Ventura County Grand Jury (“the Grand Jury”) as a juror, a position for which she had applied and been selected. The government asserts that section 6322(a)…