Williams v. Department of Army

 
APPEAL NO.
72-82
OP. BELOW
MSPB
SUBJECT
Jurisdiction
AUTHOR
Nies

Question(s) Presented

Whether “the jurisdictional statutes . . . allow bifurcation of an MSPB decision for purposes of review.”

Holding

“We hold that where jurisdiction lies in the district court under 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2), the entire action falls within the jurisdiction of that court and this court has no jurisdiction, under 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1), over such cases. This holding is limited to situations in which the employee is challenging judicially the board’s determinations of both the discrimination and the nondiscrimination issues.”