Supreme Court Hears ‘Mixed’ Civil Service Termination, Discrimination Case

Mealey's (April 17, 2017, 5:00 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court grappled April 17 with a statutory scheme for federal workers who challenge employment decisions that is designed to prevent claim splitting and to streamline the judicial process for often pro se litigants but that Justice Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. called “unbelievably complicated” when it comes to deciding what court should hear “mixed cases” involving both civil service claims and discrimination claims (Anthony W. Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, No. 16-399, U.S. Sup.)....