David R. Hastings v. Federal Aviation Administration of missouri.office of Personnel Management

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

David Hastings, an air traffic controller, brought an action under the Classification Act claiming that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) improperly failed to reclassify his facility. Shortly after this action was filed, the FAA did reclassify the facility. The district court eventually ruled in favor of the FAA, finding that Hastings had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. We dismiss this appeal as moot,

I. BACKGROUND

In 1990, the St. Louis airport tower was classified as a level IV facility and the full employment level (maximum pay grade) for a…