· 4/14/1993
Patricia L. Killip v. Office of Personnel Management
Citations
- 991 F.2d 1564
- 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 7814
- 1993 WL 112004
How courts have described this case
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- explaining that federal agencies are “creature[s] of statute”
- explaining that federal agencies are “creature[s] of statute”
- upholding disallowance of appellant’s election where it was made after date prescribed by Congress
- explaining that federal agencies are “creature[s] of statute”
- “Any and all authority pursuant to which an agency may act ultimately must be grounded in an express grant from Congress.”
- where statute established a period for federal employees to make an election to transfer from Civil Service Retirement System to FERS, OPM is without authority to entertain elections made outside that period
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Judges: Plager, Smith, Clevenger
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