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Sharol ADDISON-TAYLOR, Sherry Adedokun, Emelia Altomari, Wendy M. Americo, Carmeretta Anderson, Barbara A. Aner, Mary T. Bachmayer, William J. Bahman, Teresa M. Barth, Mary Ellen Beach, Stuart V. Becker, Eric M. Beer, Theresa E. Bell, Colleen D. Billek-Krawczyk, Bernard J. Black, Eric J. Blue, Diane Blum, Estelle L. Bolbat, Mary V. Bondura, Robert J. Borda, Joseph P. Borek, Barbara G. Bostick, Pamela E. Bowen, Donna M. Boyce, Denise M. Boyle, Jayne L. Branigan, Gerard P. Brennan, David C. Brink, Eileen P. Brown, Paul T. Brown, Tracey Brown-Dickerson, Jeffrey L. Browning, Mona Lisa Brundidge, Joan Bryan, Patricia M. Buckwalter, Patricia Ann Burkart, Michelle C. Burke, Patricia A. Burns-Padlo, Venard D. Cabbler, Donna M. Campbell, Barbara J. Cannon, Paul N. Caplan, Manuel O. Caraballo, Yvonne D. Cardwell, Clara Carr-Felder, Walter T. Catalano, Kathleen T. Catts, Thomas L. Cavanagh, Margaret J. Chalow, Cynthia A. Ciardullo, Joseph V. Ciardullo, Jr., Philip J. Cibotti, Linda A. Cioppa-Pape, Zenfandel C. Clark, Wendy I. Cohen, Linda E. Colavita, Thomas G. Colella, Jr., Ralph A. Comignola, Anna M. Conway, James Cook, Louis A. Cooker, Alan S. Coonin, Atricia A. Cooper, Dennis J. Corkery, Michael E. Crane, Rosemary A. Crognale, Philip V. Cufaro, Charles L. Culp, Maxine N. Curran, Glenn R. Daemer, Mary E. Dale, Carol L. Daley, Dwight P. Daly, Christine S. Darcy, Karen M. Dascher, Elizabeth H. Davies, Brian K. Davis, Madeline C. Davis, Marilynne Davis, Patricia M. Davis, Janet R. Day, Kathleen A. Dean, Stephen M. Deery, Beatrice A. Deluca, Carlos Deno, Jr., William L. Dent, Nicholas B. Deritis, John G. Desanto, Steven J. Desanto, Marsha L. Deshields, Richard C. Dina, Lawrence Dinardis, John A. Dinicola, Robert J. Dipentima, Maria A. Disandro, Bernadette Dlugokecki, Mary Ellen G. Dobbins, Susan C. Donahue, Terrence F. Donahue, Helen J. Donato, Mary E. Donnellan, Deborah A. Donnelly, Gregory M. Dotson, Lisa A. Douglas, John C. Dressel, Patricia H. Dukes, Gerald E. Dunn, Veronica J. Falls, Joseph J. Fanelli, Steven L. Farb, Janet K. Fein, Elizabeth A. Ferrero, Daniel G. Ferry, Susan C. Finkel, Nancy L. Fisher, Lesley V. Fitchette-Dula, Lorraine T. Fletcher, Joan D. Foglia, Catherine E. Ford, Linda L. Ford, Paul F. Forline, Michael Fox, Maryann T. France, Steven B. Friedman, Ann Marie Friend, Charles Fugarino, Doris A. Fuscellaro, Sheryl Gantt, Helen M. Gatewood, Rimas V. Gaver, Brian Gethers, Dennette E. Gibson, Deborah L. Gillard, Joann T. Glasgow, Denise D. Glover, Marsha J. Goldberg, Nilsa Gonzalez, Mary C. Goodyear, Patricia A. Graham, Maxine Gray, Patricia Greensweig, George J. Gross III, Michael S. Gross, Pamela K. Gross, William Hafft, Jacqueline Hagan, Maureen L. Hagerty, Roy F. Hallowell, Jeanne P. Hand, Deborah E. Hankin, Karen Harris, Susan Harris, Richard P. Hartzell, Kimberly A. Heebner, Chester M. Heller, Jr., Ruth Herman, Steven D. Herman, Robert A. Hewitt, Robert W. Hill, Susan M. Hill, John F. Hillenbrand, Arthur W. Hoenes, Barbara L. Hopkins, Eileen R. Hudson, Eileen Hui, Marian A. Huk, Cynthia B. Humphrey, Barbara A. Hutz, Loretta A. Irrera, Brenda R. Isaac, Rodney L. Jacks, Geraldine Jackson, John E. Jakubiak, John R. Jones, Shelia P. Jones, Robertta Jones-Jackson, Ethel Joyce, Robert M. Joyce, John E. Kaminski, Diane J. Kanther, Michael N. Kanther, David H. Katz, Delores M. Keels, Ann F. Keefe, Daniel Keefe, April E. Keys, Rose Kipnis, Robin R. Kirkland-Gonzales, Bradd R. Kleinman, Patricia D. Kniffin, Jeffrey R. Kochanowicz, Judy A. Komeleski, Leon L. Krazhyna, Martin A. Kuhn, Martin A. Kuhn, Byron H. Lampkin, Carol A. Latchaw, George Lee Lawrin, Victoria E. Lee, Maureen T. Leiter, Celestine B. Lennox, Steven C. Levy, James A. Lewicki, Maat S. Little, Delores Lonergan, Kathleen A. Lunemann, Robbin V. Lyles, Kathryne A. Lyons, Glenna C. Macarthur, Maryellen Madeja, Joyce M. Maglowski, Bernard Marcus, Barbara Margerum, Michelle M. Martin, John F. Martino, Joanne C. Mason, Gregory M. Mathews, Patricia A. Maxwell, Garth McBride, Sr., John J. McCarthy, Prussia McClendon, Arlene F. McCoy, Margaret A. McDevitt, Sus anne McHale, Regina F. McKeever, Elizabeth M. McMaster, Angel M. Melendez, A. Albert Meloni, Frank D. Meo, Thomas Metz, Robert G. Mission, Alexander Monelli, Ann E. Moore, Sabrina Morgan, Theresa A. Morine-Pearson, Celeste D. Morris, Debra A. Morrotto, Alan Moskowitz, Jeannette Moy, Patricia A. Murphy, Aleathea M. Murray, James E. Murray, Yvonne B. Murry, Patricia A. Nelson, Judith A. Nicastro, Richard Nicolella, Edward J. Nissley, Kay Nobel, Carol A. Nyce, Rita I. O’Connor, Donald J. O’Neill, Cassius Osborne, Lewis T. Osgood, Teresa L. Paige, Isaiah M. Parker, Paul S. Parlett, Gladys Patillo, George R. Patrick, Thomas A. Pawloski, Cherry L. Payne, Maryanne R. Perrello, Joann M. Peters, James D. Phillips, Valerie J. Phillips, Thomas J. Piecyk, Dominic J. Pipito, Jr., Vernon D. Pobanz, William B. Port, Judith M. Portscheller, Tarra L. Power, Daniel H. Price, Roderick Pryor, Joseph P. Przybyszewski, Joseph T. Pura, Decima I. Quaison-Sackey, Paula Quinones, Delores M. Quinto, Lynne W. Raboy, Joni A. Rahill, Priscilla Reed, Gertrude Regan, John E. Riccio, Nancy M. Rice, Joanne Rock, William A. Rosetti, Dorothy T. Rossi, Susan M. Rost, Henry W. Rozanski, Richard A. Ryons, Harry L. Sands, Mitchel Santo, Rosanne Sarkissian, Sharone E. Sax, Ralph W. Scales, Claire R. Scheuermann, Lee C. Schiller, Michele Y. Schoen, Terry Schoen, Ann Schrage, Michael F. Scuito, Frances M. Shapley, Delores M. Shaw, Steven Silverman, Daniel J. Simone, Christine M. Sloan, Shirley F. Sloan, Yousuf Smalls, Wardell Smith, Kathleen L. Snyder, Craig W. Sonntag, Harvey Spivak, William R. Spollen, Dorothy M. Sprouls, Augustus J. Squillace, Barbara J. Stout, Rosalie Strawberry, Joseph B. Sunowicz, Thomas F. Sweeney, Robert M. Taglieri, Bruce S. Taraska, Christine M. Tarkett, Michael D. Tarkett, Donna Y. Taylor-Johnson, Catherine M. Teagle, Karla G. Thompkins, Jeanette O. Thompson, Robert T. Thompson, Joanne F. Tierney, Judith C. Tims, Donna L. Toliver, Judith A. Tomaselli, Elisha A. Torrence, Marlene Jo Tunkel, Helene Tunney, Stephen R. Ungvarsky, Lisa A. Vicoli, Lisa Vivino-Araujo, Teresa M. Wach, Regina A. Walkovic, Angela M. Wallace, Gary J. Waltrich, Jay Ward, Thomas E. Washington, Gayle M. Watkins, Barry F. Weissman, Beverly A. White, Lynne J. Wiederman, Teresa M. Wilde, Thomas H. Wilkie, James A. Williams, Deborah M. Winterer, Andrea Woodring, Carolyn I. Wright, Rose R. Wright, and Marilyn L. Yacker, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 02-5049.
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    DECIDED: July 24, 2003.
    Before RADER, GAJARSA, and LINN, Circuit Judges.
   ORDER

RADER, Circuit Judge.

The parties move to “dismiss this case and remand” for further proceedings, in view of this court’s recent decisions in Mudge v. United States, 308 F.3d 1220 (Fed.Cir.2002) and O’Connor v. United States, 308 F.3d 1233 (Fed.Cir.2002).

This court cannot both dismiss and remand an appeal because those are mutually exclusive dispositions of a case. Instead, we determine what the proper disposition of this case is in view of our holdings in Mudge and O’Connor. We previously stayed proceedings in this case, recognizing that our disposition of Mudge and O’Connor would likely control the disposition of this appeal. In Mudge and O’Connor, we held that Congress had established a judicial remedy for certain federal employment grievances subject to negotiated grievance procedures contained in a collective bargaining agreement. In the present case, the Court of Federal Claims determined that there was no such cause of action and dismissed the complaint for lack of jurisdiction. Because the parties agree that this court’s decisions in Mudge and O’Connor control this court’s disposition of this appeal, it appears that the proper course is to vacate the court’s judgment in this case and remand for further proceedings.

Accordingly,

IT IS ORDERED THAT:

(1) The motion to remand is granted. The judgment of the Court of Federal Claims is vacated and the case is remanded for further proceedings.

(2) The motion to dismiss is denied.