Vernon G. Pitsker, and Richard C. Rogers v. Office of Personnel Management

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• concluding that Federal law enforcement officers who qualified for disability retirement may qualify for enhanced retirement benefits, without regard to the age and time of service requirements of an ordinary retirement
• concluding that Federal law enforcement officers who qualified for disability retirement may qualify for enhanced retirement benefits, without regard to the age and time of service requirements of an ordinary retirement
• finding Office of Personnel Management’s statutory interpretation violated “the canon of statutory construction that an interpretation that causes absurd results is to be avoided if at all possible”
• “Statutory interpretation is a question of law which we review de novo.”
• “[W]e must ‘find that interpretation which can most fairly be said to be imbedded in the statute, in the sense of being most harmonious with its scheme and with the general purposes that Congress manifested.’” (quoting NLRB v. Lion Oil Co., 352 U.S. 282, 297 (1957)

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