Lyons v. United States

OPINION

MARGOLIS, Judge.

This civilian pay case is before the Court on the government’s motion to dismiss with oral argument. Plaintiff, Perry T. Lyons, allegedly representing approximately sixty federal firefighters employed by five United States government agencies located in Virginia, brought a class action claiming that, in contravention to statutory and other authority, the government improperly computed the amount of the firefighters’ annual leave. As a result, the plaintiff argues, members of the purported class1 worked during hours in which they should have been on leave and, therefore,…