Legal Opinion
Cohen v. Austin
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 11, 1995No. 92-CV-5623PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION
JOYNER, Judge.
The plaintiff in this case is Robert H. Cohen, a 46-year old Jewish man who was denied a within-grade increase and eventually removed from his position as a GS-12 contract specialist with the General Services Administration (“GSA”). Mr. Cohen appealed to the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), both of which ruled in favor of the defendant. In September of 1992, Mr. Cohen filed a complaint in this Court, alleging that GSA denied him the within-grade increase and terminated him as a result of religious…
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