SAUL v. U.S.

No. 89-35698.

928 F.2d 829 (1991)

Jeffrey A. SAUL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America; Ray Larsen; Colleen St. Louis; John Doe St. Louis, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Kornhauser, Rose & Kornhauser, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard A. Olderman, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before WRIGHT, SCHROEDER and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

Today we consider what remedies are available to a federal employee who has work-related differences with his supervisors. Specifically, we decide whether a federal employee may use either a constitutional or a common law tort theory to sue his supervisors over disputes growing out of his employment.

BACKGROUND

Jeffrey Saul worked for the Social Security Administration (SSA) in Seattle as a Claims Representative....

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