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Posted: Thu 8:30, 05 May 2011 Post subject: Cheap Jordans Legal Updates Impacting Disability R |
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-- From Ancient Parables
I have often discussed the legal conveniences of being separated from Federal Service for one’s “medical inability to perform” one’s job, which results in what is usually known as the “Bruner Presumption”, where such a termination results in a prima facie showing of his or her burden of testimony. What this means is that, with such a termination, the “burden of production” shifts to the Office of Personnel Management, who must disprove your entitlement to disability retirement. Bruner v. Office of Personnel Management, 996 F.2d 290, 294 (Fed. Cir. 1993) Bruner was a 1993 case, and still applies today. However, further developments since then have amplified the applicability of the Bruner Presumption, and they are of magnitude for those filing for disability retirement.
Some recent evolutions impacting FERS and CSRS disability retirement applicants:
The Merit Systems Protection Board has held that removal for “extended lacks is equivalent to removal for physical inability to act where it is accompanied along specifications indicating that the decision to remove was based aboard medical documentation suggesting that the appellant was disabled and unable to fulfil her duties.” McCurdy v. OPM, Docket #DA-844E-03-0088-I-1 (April 30, 2004), citing as legislature Ayers-Kavtaradze v. OPM, 91 397 (2002).
What this means namely that, the mere fact that a removal letter does no specifically state that you are creature separated from service because you “medical inability to perform” your job, does not necessarily mean that you are not entitled to the Bruner Presumption. That namely why it is constantly momentous to have one solicitor involved in negotiating the terms of a removal deed, especially where removal is an action about to occur.
For example, whether it is appropriate explicit that you have been on LWOP for a duration approaching a annual, it might be a nice idea to submit medical reports and documents showing the medical basis for your LWOP. Or, if a Notice of Proposed Removal has been issued, it is important to answer to such a proposal by submitting medical documentation building the basis for your non-attendance at work.
Now, the next and normal answer is: How distant will the Merit Systems Protection Board go in giving you the Bruner Presumption? The answer: It is not always important to obtain the Bruner Presumption,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as it is to argue for the Bruner Presumption. In my experience litigating these cases before the Board, I have found that it is helpful to make a forceful argument that my customer should be entitled to the Bruner Presumption, based above all of the circumstantial evidence. And, even if I am not able to convince the Administrative Judge that my client is entitled to the Bruner Presumption, the argument itself highlights the fact to the Judge that it was a near phone -- and this often leads to a victory.
Indeed, for a preferably funny aside, afterward I had submitted a legal note and debated to a Judge during a Prehearing Conference that the Bruner Presumption ought apply in a particular case. The Judge stated to me,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], “Mr. McGill,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], along to your dialectic, the Bruner Presumption should always apply!” To which I responded: “Your Honor, that would naturally be my favorite.”
Furthermore, it is too of vital importance to appeal a removal action whenever likely and legally allowable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], especially where the removal action was based upon the pleaded misconduct of the individual. Why? Because by appealing the removal action, you always stand the chance of coming to a compromise with the Agency, and having the Agency alteration the basis of th
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