Mealey's (October 13, 2016, 8:45 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The restrictions in Section 3345(b)(1) of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA) are clear and unambiguous and apply to all acting officers, not just first assistants, SW General Inc. argues in its respondent brief filed Sept. 19 in the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking affirmance of a ruling by the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in which the appellate panel found that a former acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board served in violation of the FVRA for nearly two years and, as a result, the unfair labor practice complaint he issued against an ambulance company was unauthorized (National Labor Relations Board v. SW General, Inc., doing business as Southwest Ambulance, No. 15-1251, U.S. Sup.)....