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FISHER v. D.C.

No. 00-CV-41.

803 A.2d 962 (2002)

Harold FISHER, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 25, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Herrington, for appellant.

Donna M. Murasky, Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Robert R. Rigsby, Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Jonathan G. Axelrod, Washington, on behalf of Teamsters Local 639, and Elizabeth J. Head, on behalf of the Council of School Officers, Local 4, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Before TERRY, RUIZ, and REID, Associate Judges.

RUIZ, Associate Judge.

Harold Fisher, a public school attendance officer, was terminated in a 1998 reduction-in-force (RIF). He appeals a denial of his claim for severance pay. The trial court dismissed Fisher's action for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies, and held that Fisher had no alternative private right of action entitling him to file directly in court. Fisher responds that pursuing his administrative remedies would have been futile because the...

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