Medical Tests Used to Sack Federal Workers Set for More Scrutiny

Federal employees will have an easier time challenging medical evaluations used as the basis for termination, attorneys said, based on an appeals court ruling that found a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was entitled to review supporting documentation of a psychological review that led to his firing.

A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that an arbitrator wrongly rejected the officer’s request that the agency provide him with assessments and notes issued by a psychologist before it used the material to terminate him. Judge Jimmie Reyna noted in the Sept. 15 ...