Gregory A. Schmittling v. Department of the Army

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in an IRA appeal, the Board cannot assume it has jurisdiction and proceed to make a determination on the merits
• recognizing that a decision on the merits would be a nullity in the absence of Board jurisdiction
• holding that the Board may not make findings on the merits of an IRA appeal unless it first determines that it has jurisdiction over the matter
• explaining that, in an IRA appeal, the Board may find it lacks jurisdiction based on an appellant’s failure to meet any one of the jurisdictional prerequisites
• finding that the Board may not decide the merits of an IRA appeal if it lacks jurisdiction
• observing that the Board may find it lacks jurisdiction over an IRA appeal if any one of the jurisdictional prerequisites are not met

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).