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