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866 F.3d 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2017): Rumsey v. Department of Justice, 866 F.3d 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2017)

August 10, 2017

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in Part II of its opinion that a complainant in litigation against the United States does not violate either 18 U.S.C. § 203 or § 205 as a result of accepting attorney’s fees for the services of an attorney who is now a current Federal employee if the authority for paying such fees requires that they be paid to the complainant, not the attorney.

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