Janice R. Bohac v. Department of Agriculture

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• explaining that consequential damages are limited to “reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs” and limiting consequential damages under the WPA to out-of-pocket expenses”
• noting that damages for a whistle- blower claim are “akin” to contract damages, which are rooted in the common law doctrine of foreseeability
• explaining that the “consequential damages” provision of the relevant statute, 5 U.S.C. § 1221(g), was “limited to reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs”
• recognizing inability to collect emotional distress damages as a general rule, but recognizing that the exceptions to this general rule include cases where “the breach of the contract is particularly likely to cause serious emotional disturbance”
• limiting consequential damages under the WPA to reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses
• discussing the legislative history of the 1994 amendments to section 1221(g)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).