Court Opinion

ID: 9383876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-03-31 15:01:01.201032+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:48.813619
License: Public Domain

Case: 23-1050    Document: 23     Page: 1   Filed: 03/28/2023

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                    RAHUL JINDAL,
                       Petitioner

                             v.

      MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                    Respondent
              ______________________

                        2023-1050
                  ______________________

    Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
 Board in No. DC-1221-21-0221-W-2.
                 ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

   Before LOURIE, PROST, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges.
 WALLACH, Circuit Judge.
                        ORDER
     The Merit Systems Protection Board moves with the
 consent of Rahul Jindal for a remand, noting that the ad-
 ministrative judge’s dismissal for lack of jurisdiction was
 improperly based on consideration of documents submitted
 only by the agency in violation of Hessami v. Merit Sys.
 Prot. Bd., 979 F.3d 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2020).
Case: 23-1050     Document: 23     Page: 2     Filed: 03/28/2023

 2                                     RAHUL JINDAL    v. MSPB

     Upon consideration thereof,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
      (1) The motion is granted. The Board’s decision is va-
 cated, and the case is remanded to the Board to reconsider
 its decision consistent with the motion and this order.
     (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                   FOR THE COURT

 March 28, 2023                     /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                           Peter R. Marksteiner
                                    Clerk of Court
 ISSUED AS A MANDATE: March 28, 2023