Supreme Court to rule on prohibited personnel practices

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether the code of Prohibited Personnel Practices [5 USC § 2302(b)(8)(A)] can bar an agency from taking action against an employee who intentionally divulges sensitive security information. The Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) [Cornell LII backgrounder], which created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [official website], was passed in response to the attacks...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/05/supreme-court-to-rule-on-prohibited-personnel-practices.php

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