United States Fourth Circuit

The district court properly dismissed plaintiff's action brought under the Administrative Procedure Act against defendant and its Director to reverse defendant's decision revoking plaintiff’s top secret security clearance following his marriage, to reinstate his security clearance, and to award him back pay, benefits, and attorneys' fees, where plaintiff's complaint merely challenges the merits of the defendant's security clearance decision and his conclusory constitutional claims are unsuccessful attempts to circumvent the undisputed proposition that the Court will not review the merits of a security clearance decision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/25/2013
• Published 04/25/2013

Judges

• NIEMEYER

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel