Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation
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Summary
A short, plain-English overview of Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation.
The Supreme Court addressed whether federal civilian employees serving as military reservists are entitled to differential pay when called to active duty during a national emergency. The Court ruled that such employees are entitled to differential pay if their service coincides temporally with a national emergency, without needing to prove a substantive connection to the emergency. The decision reversed the Federal Circuit's requirement for a substantive connection.
Holding
The single most important “bottom line” of what the Court decided in Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation.
The Court held that a federal civilian employee called to active duty during a national emergency is entitled to differential pay if the service coincides temporally with the emergency.
Constitutional Concepts
These are the Constitution-related themes that appear in Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation. Click a concept to see other cases that involve the same idea.
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Why Administrative Law is relevant to Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation
The case involves interpretation of statutory language concerning federal employee benefits, which implicates administrative law principles regarding statutory interpretation and agency decisions.
Syllabus excerpt (verbatim)Feliciano argued that two statutes entitled him to differential pay: 5 U. S. C. § 5538(a) and 10 U. S. C. § 101(a)(13)(B).
Key Quotes
Short excerpts from the syllabus in Feliciano v. Department Of Transportation that support the summary and concepts above.
A federal civilian employee called to active duty pursuant to 'any other provision of law . . . during a national emergency' is entitled to differential pay.
The word 'during' normally 'denotes a temporal link' and means 'contemporaneous with.'
Contextual clues strengthen this conclusion.
