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Bradley E. Green v. Merit Systems Protection Board
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2024-1615 · judgment August 8, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the United States Postal Service violated Petitioner’s Due Process Rights pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by terminating Petitioner’s employment, and depriving Petitioner of a protected property interest, without conducting a full, fair and impartial investigation and hearing?
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Whether the Merit System Protections Board decision, premised on multiple factual errors, was arbitrary and capricious in violation of 5 U.S.C. §7703 (c)(3), thereby warranting review by this Court?
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Whether the Merit System Protections Board abused its discretion by failing to consider and apply all the Alonzo factors in determining whether good cause existed for the appellant’s untimely filing in violation of 5 U.S.C. §7703 (c)(1)?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Rachel Demarst Gold
Abrams Fensterman, LLP
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, January 12, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jan 12 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 16 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Dec 11 2025Waiver of right of respondent Merit Systems Protection Board to respond filed.
- Nov 05 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 18, 2025)