United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit for employment benefits under the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the district court erred in deciding that section 4311(a), rather than section 4316(b)(1) must be applied in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2004
• Published 12/02/2004

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, DENNIS and PICKERING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward Himmelfarb, Michael Jay Singer, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div.-App. Staff, Washington, DC, for U.S., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martha Powell Owen (argued), Wiseman, Durst, Tuddenham & Owen, Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., W. Wendell Hall, Rosemarie Kanusky (argued), Cyndi Michelle Benedict, Fulbright & Jaworski, San Antonio, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.