A passport specialist at the Department of State (DOS) has argued that his fully successful performance evaluation should be considered as evidence that he consistently followed instructions.

Regarding the “enforcement” of COVID-19 vaccine,. the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) advises agencies begin the disciplinary process as early as November 9, 2021.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) have reached an agreement granting Title 5 equivalent appeal rights.

On September 9, 2021, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees,” an executive order “requir[ing] COVID-19 vaccination for all Federal employees, subject to such exceptions as required by law.”

To establish the “ultimate discovery” exception to the exclusionary rule, the government must prove the exception by a “preponderance of the evidence,” the Eleventh Circuit recently held in an en banc decision. The full-court decision reversed forty-one years of Circuit precedent.