United States DC Circuit

In an action for wrongful failure to promote Plaintiff federal employees, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed, where the Civil Service Reform Act, not the Administrative Procedure Act, is the proper vehicle for covered federal employees to challenge personnel actions by their employers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/19/2009
• Decided 04/03/2009
• Published 04/03/2009

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE, Chief Judge, and GINSBURG and KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leslie D. Alderman III argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jane M. Lyons, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With her on the brief were Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, and R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant U.S. Attorney.