Edward G. Langer v. Department of the Treasury

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an appellant in an IRA appeal must prove his prima facie case by preponderant evidence
• concluding that disclosures of “trivial violations do not constitute protected disclosures.”
• holding that an IRS employee, whose duty it was to review actions taken by the IRS’s Criminal Division, did not engage in activity protected by the WPA by informing DOJ officials that their grand jury investigations disproportionately targeted African– Americans
• finding that in an IRA appeal, “[t]he standard for establishing subject matter jurisdiction and the right to a hearing is assertion of a nonfrivolous claim ,” while “the standard for establishing a prima facie case is preponderant evidence ”
• “[T]he admissibility of evidence is within the sound discretion of the Board.”
• requiring specificity to establish a protected disclosure

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