FERS Disability: working second job while on limited duty usps is it legal?

OPM Medical Retirement Legal Representation: Sad stories

December 20, 2017

Is sadness relative? Are there sad stories that are so sad that even the ones that were considered sad prior to the sadder story being told, somehow nullify the lesser sad stories and make them into not sad stories? Do we, after hearing the sadder tale, turn to the first story teller and say, “Yours was not so sad, after all, and in fact you have it pretty good”? If a person tells of having just buried his mother, and you ask, “How old was she?” […]

Federal Disability Retirement Representation: The defeating question

July 28, 2017

It is the question itself which is often “telling”; it informs us of where the line of answering and posited queries is likely to take us. It is like the map that guides in a certain direction, the compass that informs one of the vantage point of one’s existence or the gravitational pull which pulls in order to remain cohesive with other heavenly bodies; the question itself may not even need an answer. […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Chasm Between Sanity and Twilight

May 18, 2015

Sometimes, there are moments of clarity where one is left with wonderment at the behavioral folly of individuals, organizations, and groups of collective consciousnesses (what an untenable word — the pluralization of that which ends in what appears to be the plural form of the noun). Whether one agrees with the Supreme Court’s holding that corporations should be treated as “persons”, the fact is that organizations act in collective aggregates in similar manners as individuals and amoebas. […]

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: The Life We Perceive

May 12, 2015

The state of having an epistemological privilege in the first-person singular, means that we occupy a unique position of knowledge, cognition, perception and viewpoint. Concurrently, however, we must recognize and acknowledge that others have a similarly extraordinary vantage point, and that no matter how hard […]

OPM Disability Law: Arguing by Logical Extension

May 7, 2015

Often, in legal argumentation, one must simply use the available evidence garnered, and make the best of it. In many areas of law, especially in administrative legal venues involving Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers, the law favors agencies which hide behind the shield of “efficiency of the Federal Service”, in implementing sanctions, adverse actions, restrictions of leave usage, proposing and deciding upon removals (whether based upon reasons of medical conditions or other basis), etc. […]