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William H. Ferrell v. Department of the Interior

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2025-1533 · judgment December 1, 2025


Certiorari denied · June 22, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Is the MSPB “Adjudication” process as mandated to federal civilian employees who petition MSPB appeals and authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 1295 (9) - Judiciary and Judicial Procedure which only authorizes 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1) and (d) while omitting 5 U.S. C. § 77083 (c) systemically and illegally limiting, inhibiting, denying, restraining, abridging and\or depriving federal employees of their rights, privileges, immunities, assurances and\or protections of established laws and precedents including their US Constitutional rights, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments in departure from Marchant v. Pa. R.R., 153 U.S. 380, 386 (1894) where a litigant had the benefit of a full and fair trial or depriving federal civilian employees subjected to the MSPB process of; life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; or otherwise denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws as established in Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516, 537 (1884), Hagar v. Reclamation Dist., 111 U.S. 701, 708 (1884) by extinguishing and denying the Federal Circuit’s the ability to review MSPB cases de novo ?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William H. Ferrell

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 22 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 02 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2026.
  3. May 21 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Department of the Interior to respond filed.
  4. Feb 02 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 26, 2026)