DURR v. SHINSEKI

No. 10-11490.

638 F.3d 1342 (2011)

Jacques A. DURR, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Eric K. SHINSEKI, M.D., Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 19, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward A. Meythaler , Merkle, Magri & Meythaler, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Durr.

Peter J. Sholl , Michelle Thresher Taylor , Jennifer Waugh Corinis , Robert E. O'Neill , David Paul Rhodes , Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT, CARNES and HILL, Circuit Judges.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal brings us an issue arising from the statutory regime that governs part of the employment system in the Department of Veterans Affairs. The issue is whether the two-year probationary period laid out at 38 U.S.C. § 7403 applies to a temporary, at-will VA physician appointed under 38 U.S.C. § 7405. The appellant, Dr. Jacques Durr, contends that it does, relying on the plain language in § 7403. Taken as literally as he...

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