United States Federal Circuit

In a matter involving a whistleblower complaint alleging that an agency was escalating intentional discrimination against petitioner's brother, based on both brothers' whistleblowing activities, dismissal of petitioner's individual right of action (IRA) appeal for lack of jurisdiction is affirmed where he did not set forth nonfrivolous allegations of a prohibited personnel action taken against him in his original pleading to the Office of Special Counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2007
• Published 01/26/2007

Judges

• MOORE, Circuit Judge., Before GAJARSA, MOORE and JORDAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Aleksandr J. Stoyanov, of Fulton, Maryland, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory T. Jaeger, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for respondent.   With him on the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General;  David M. Cohen, Director;  and Deborah A. Bynum, Assistant Director.