The Merit Systems Protection Board needs to examine if the US government incorrectly denied a DEA agent a promotion for more than a decade, a federal circuit court panel decided Monday.
A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the board cited the wrong legal standard when it sided with the Drug Enforcement Administration in a dispute with former special agent Anthony Knox over a denied promotion related to time off he took to serve in the military.
Knox temporarily left the DEA in 2002 to serve in Air Force operations in Iraq, according ...
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