Former DHS Worker’s Appeal of Security Clearance Review Denied

A federal appeals panel affirmed a district court’s decision to toss a former Department of Homeland Security employee’s lawsuit alleging his security clearance stalled due to retaliation for the worker’s previous claims of disability discrimination.

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said in a ruling Thursday that the 1988 Supreme Court’s decision in Department of the Navy v. Egan limits judicial review of security clearances. The three-judge panel, however, modified the district court’s opinion, which dismissed the lawsuit for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

Instead, the panel found that Egan placed a “nonjurisdictional limit” on reviews of security ...