Legal Opinion
James R. Bankston v. Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 1, 2003No. 02-15547PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
James Bankston appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim for lack of jurisdiction. The district court held that Bankston had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies because he voluntarily dismissed an appeal he had filed with the Merit Systems Protection Board. We reverse the district court’s dismissal of Bankston’s complaint.
Bankston was fired from his job as OSHA officer for the Department of the Army on February 25, 1999. He filed an appeal with the Merit Systems Protection Board on March 24,…
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