Robert J. Nigg v. Merit Systems Protection Board, and United States Postal Service, Intervenor

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “By statute, however, the term ‘reduction in pay’ refers to a reduction in basic pay, not a reduction in premium pay.”
• “This court has specifically held that availability pay is a type of premium pay and not part of the ‘rate of basic pay’ for a position within the meaning of section 7511(a)(4).”
• “The provisions of Title 5 do not apply to the Postal Service unless Congress has specifically so provided.... [LEAP] section 5545a is not one of the exceptional provisions that Congress has made applicable to the Postal Service.”
• “The provisions of Title 5 do not apply to the Postal Service unless Congress has specifically so provided.... [LEAP] section 5545a is not one of the exceptional provisions that Congress has made applicable to the Postal Service.”
• “The provisions of Title 5 do not apply to the Postal Service unless Congress has specifically so provided. . . . [LEAP] section 5545a is not one of the exceptional provisions that Congress has made applicable to the Postal Service.”
• “The provisions of Title 5 do not apply to the Postal Service unless Congress has specifically so provided . . . . [LEAP] section 5545a is not one of the exceptional provisions that Congress has made applicable to the Postal Service.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).