WISE v. WILKIE

No. 19-60194.

955 F.3d 430 (2020)

Patricia Melonee WISE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert WILKIE, Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED April 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis Lee Horn , Leigh Horn , Shirley Elizabeth Payne , Horn & Payne, P.L.L.C., Madison, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Angela Givens Williams , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before WIENER, GRAVES, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.


This decade-old employment dispute between Patricia Wise and her employer, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, concerns not the merits of Wise's disability-discrimination claim, but rather the enforceability of the parties' settlement agreement—actually, agreements (plural). We vacate and remand to the...

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