United States First Circuit

Dismissal of suit involving discrimination by a government employer is affirmed where a government employee's election to pursue a mixed case before the Merit Systems Protection Board obliges her to follow that route through to completion, to the exclusion of any other remedy that originally might have been available.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2006
• Published 06/07/2006

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nicolas Nogueras-Cartagena and Carmen Eva Garcia-Cardenas, on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, Marleigh D. Dover and Teal Luthy Miller, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, on brief, for appellees.