United States Federal Circuit - March 2002 Opinion Summaries

RUSSO v. US POSTAL SERV.

Labor & Employment Law
The Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) will sustain a general charge of misconduct when it finds that an employee engaged in inappropriate...

NOVOSTEEL SA v. US

International Trade
The omission of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States ("HTUS") number for a profile slab does not mean that a duty order necessarily...

LAPUH v. MERIT SYS. PROT. BD.

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Where plaintiff averred she was denied veterans' preference rights, which resulted in her not being hired by the postal service in 1994, the Board...

TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK v. EVANS

Admiralty, Environmental Law
The government's decision to permit the importation of shrimp caught with Turtle Excluder Devices (TED) from uncertified nations is in accordance with...

FUJITSU GEN. AMERICA, INC. v. US

International Trade
Government's failure to timely publish notice of Court of International Trade's decision within the statutory deadline for the liquidation of entries...

WALLACE v. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MGMT.

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
The Back Pay Act, 5 U.S.C section 5596, does not authorize the payment of interest on back payments of retirement benefits.

IN RE: GLAUG

Intellectual Property, Patent
Board of Patent Appeals' decision, rejecting all claims of patent application for elastic training pants, reversed, where the placement of adhesive in...

GALLEGOS v. PRINCIPI

Government Benefits
Because 38 C.F.R. section 20.201, a VA regulation setting minimum requirements for a notice of disagreement (NOD), is not procedurally defective,...

BOEING N. AM., INC. v. ROCHE

Attorney's Fees, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Government Contracts
Because the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals applied the wrong legal standard when disallowing contractor's legal costs of defending a...

STANLEY v. PRINCIPI

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Government Benefits
38 U.S.C. section 5904(c) was designed to allow attorneys' fees in connection with proceedings to reopen a claim on the grounds of new and material...