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CORNELIOUS v. DC EMPLOYEES' COMP. APP. BD.

No. 96-CV-72.

704 A.2d 853 (1997)

Carl CORNELIOUS, Joan Harvill, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 30, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan A. Harvill, for appellants.

Jo Anne Robinson, Interim Corporation Counsel, with whom Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, and Edward E. Schwab, Assistant Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and KING, Associate Judge, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants assert that the rules regulating attorney's fees for contested worker's compensation claims arising under the Merit Personnel Act, D.C.Code Title 1-624.1 et seq. (1992 Repl. & 1997 Supp.) violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. We disagree and therefore affirm.

I.

Appellant Carl Cornelious worked for the Department of Corrections when he was injured on the job. He received disability compensation benefits...

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