Bennett, Patsy F. v. Chertoff, Michael

[boston bean]

Has anybody heard of this, what it is about. I tried to google further, but nothing. And is it Sec'y Chertoff?

Below is the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's current oral argument calendar for the 2004-2005 term. All arguments, unless otherwise noted, are held in the Court of Appeals Courtroom located on the fifth floor of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse. In consolidated cases, only the lead docket number is listed. The cases are subject to change at any time. The time allocated for oral argument is listed to the right of the case caption. Time allocations are established approximately two weeks prior to oral argument. Arguing counsel should arrive in the Courtroom by 9:10 a.m. to check in with the Courtroom Deputy. Counsel arguing in the afternoon sessions should arrive no later than 1:40 p.m.


Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:30 AM To be determined
Judges Randolph, Rogers and Williams
04-3095 USA v. Alston-Graves, Lois 15 min per side
04-5281 Bennett, Patsy F. v. Chertoff, Michael 20 min per side
04-1248 ICO Global Comm Hold v. FCC 15 min per side

http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/courtrm/60day.html

[boston bean]

1. small kick, does anyone know?

[elehhhhna]

2. if it's an appeal there is a prior ruling somewhere...

retitle and ask for lexis/nexis help, maybe?

[boston bean]

3. I can't find it, I will leave it to the persons who really know how to

search for this kind of stuff.

I don't know if it's old news or what. Maybe, but can't find it on the web easily.

[elehhhhna]

4. start another thread with "DU researchers Lexis/Nexis" and Chertoff,

and somebody will probably be able to scare it up.

[onenote]

5. here's your answer

Its an employment suit brought against the Department of Homeland Security. It was originally titled Bennett v. Ridge, and was decided by the district court under that name. It was appealed and while the appeal was pending, Ridge left and so Chertoff's name was substituted (he's a party to the suit in his official capacity). I didn't read the case through, but it appears that Ms. Bennett was a criminal investigator employed by TSA and was fired after a background check revealed she had not been fully candid about some aspect of her past employment history with the Dept of Defense. Her claim was dismissed on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction to review a decision to deny a security clearance.

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/03-2176.pdf

onenote

[boston bean]

6. Thank you very much. Can you give me a lesson some day on

how you found it?

[onenote]

7. deductive reasoning

I figured that it probably was a suit against Chertoff in his official capacity and that it probably started out as a suit against Ridge in the lower courts. So I simply did a google search of Bennett v. Ridge DC Court and, voila, there it was.

onenote

[boston bean]

8. excellent. I never thought of that. that's what great about DU!

Thanks!