merit system protection board decisions

• From colorblindness to antibalkanization: an emerging ground of decision in race equality cases.

...Mapping Equal Protection: The Anticlassification and Antisubordination Prin... spoke, in the Supreme Court's recent decisions addressing race-conscious efforts to ensure integr... us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters--a goal that the F... a commonplace understanding that school boards were permitted to consider race in order to reduce... results is deemed to be on the basis of merit; but if the selection criteria with racial dispara...

• Yale Law Journal
• Vol. 120 Nbr. 6, April 2011

• National Commission On the B.P. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Holds a Meeting to Discuss the Preliminary Findings Related to the Root Causes of the Bp Deepwater Horizon Disaster, Day 2

... Reilly who led the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush. The comm... We believe we understand the decisions and their consequences that constitute the proxima... restoration projects long on the drawing boards. I have heard from so many in the Gulf, "Don't rec... Thus, it merits continuing attention by all Americans and thus by ... hand, we were to maintain the current system, in which approximately 40 percent of our demand i...

• Political Transcript Wire
• December 06, 2010

• Three concepts of dignity in constitutional law.

...A close review of constitutional decisions, however, demonstrates that courts do not have a s... with social-welfare rights or protection by the state from poverty and violence. In this un... and choice upon which our political system rests. (116) Cohen emphasized the importance of ho... by ancestry instead of by his or her own merit and essential qualities. An inquiry into ancestral...For example, in Brown v. Board of Education, (330) the Supreme Court explained, "...

• Notre Dame Law Review
• Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, February 2011

• Gertrude A. Witzkoske, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. United States Postal Service, Defendant-Appellee., 848 F.2d 70 (5th Cir. 1988)

...Merit System Protection Board, 775 F.2d 296, 297 (Fed.Ci... to judicial review of adverse personnel decisions. Furthermore, appellant's contention that the hold...

• Federal Circuits

• Fourteenth Amendment. Section 1: Privileges and immunities of citizenchip, due process and equal protection

... While various decisions have held that the "liberty" guaranteed by the Fou... of the decision against him, and of the merits of the legislation on which such a decision may be... reaching than those that might come to our system of government if the judiciary, abandoning the sph... that it was impossible for a fair-minded board to come to the result which was reached." . These...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• The No Surprises Rule

US attorneys are political appointees and, as such, have none of the due process rights that career civil servants have when faced with removal. Due process proceedings force managers to justify their actions and to explain why they want to fire an employee. But political appointees ca not file a grievance through a union or submit an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board. They serve at the pleasure of the president, which means that no reason needs to be given for their removal. Justice actually has a formal evaluation system for US attorneys. It is exhaustive, with teams of reviewers descending upon each office to examine how the attorneys prioritize and manage cases, deal with subordinates and stakeholders, and generally administer their offices. The reviewers assign ratings o...

... system were not decisive in Justice's decisions on who to fire. Some of those who were asked to re...

• Government Executive
• August 19, 2009

• Part III

...Privacy Act of 1974; Republication of Systems of Records Notices; Notice. [[Page 59614]]. NUCLEA...28. Merit Selection Records--NRC. 29. (Revoked.). 30. (Revok... Special Counsel, and/or Merit Systems Protection Board with information concerning an employee in i... correspondence between the parties, and decisions by the Regional Administrators of DOL's Occupation...

• FR, October 10, 2006
• Separate parts
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Migration and conservation: frameworks, gaps, and synergies in science, law, and management.

...Limitations on Protection at Ecologically Relevant Levels f. Summary of La w... and make use of aspects of the legal system; land managers, who manage wildlife on their prope... animals use to make seasonal timing decisions, such as when to breed and when to migrate, have b... bycatch mitigation gear to be carried on board the fishing vessel including line cutters, dehooke... traditional criterion of the intellectual merit of the proposed research. (361) Conservation group...

• Environmental Law
• Vol. 41 Nbr. 2, March 2011

• Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, 564 U.S. (2011)

... but has beenprepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader.See United State...Board ofEd. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will... access to the courts mayimplicate the protections of the Petition Clause, this caseprovides no neces... spend money toinstall Global Positioning System devices on police cars,id., at 161-162 (same). Fi... of public concern.There is, however, no merit to the suggestion that thepublic concern test cann...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, 551 U.S. (2007)

... the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee. In the Seattle case, the District Court... being forced to compete in a race-based system that might prejudice its members' children, an act... student preferences, affect assignment decisions under their plans, but under each plan when race c...In Brown v. Board of Education , 347 U. S. 483, the Court held that ... analyses of course did not decide the merits of this question-as evidenced by the disagreement ...

• U.S. Supreme Court