AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES v. OSC

No. 20-1976.

1 F.4th 180 (2021)

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES; American Federation of Government Employees Local 2578, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 11, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kyle David Lyons-Burke , ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Jack E. Starcher , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Austin R. Evers , Melanie Sloan , John E. Bies , AMERICAN OVERSIGHT, Washington, D.C.; R. Stanton Jones , Daniel F. Jacobson , Jacob Zionce , ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Jeffrey Bossert Clark , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Michael S. Raab , Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Robert K. Hur , United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Greenbelt, Maryland; Susan K. Ullman , General Counsel, UNITED STATES OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Wilkinson wrote the opinion, in which Judge Rushing and Senior Judge Traxler joined.


The federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. No matter how interesting or elegant a party's argument, the federal courts have no power to breathe life into disputes that come to us without it. The American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation...

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