Legal Opinion
James W. Lawson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 24, 1996No. 96-1887PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
James Lawson appeals from the district court’s 1 order granting the government’s motions to substitute the United States as the named defendant and to dismiss. We affirm.
Lawson is an administrative law judge in the Fort Smith, Arkansas, office of the Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings and Appeals. Two employees of that office wrote a letter complaining about Lawson’s job performance and sent it to the chief administrative law judge presiding over a case involving Lawson that was pending before the Merit Systems Protection Board. Copies of this letter…
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