Last week, Proskauer prevailed at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of our client, Stuart Harrow, in an appeal that determined that the statutory deadlines for appealing administrative decisions are not automatically jurisdictional and do not prevent claims challenging a furlough from being heard in the Federal Circuit. Following a furlough in 2013, Department of Defense employee Stuart Harrow appealed to the Merits Systems Protection Board (MSPB), an independent agency established to adjudicate federal employment disputes, for a hardship exemption. He argued that he was prevented from finding other work due to a discontinuous six-day furlough and, as a result, should receive lost pay. After waiting several years for a decision, during which time the MSPB lost its quorum and temporarily stopped deciding cases, Mr. Harrow’s claim was eventually denied. Even then, it took some time for Mr. Harrow to learn of this decision, as it was sent to a DOD email address that had been deactivated.
Isaiah D. Anderson
Isaiah Anderson is an associate in the Litigation Department.
Isaiah Anderson earned his J.D. degree from New York University, where he was a Senior Executive Editor of the New York University Law Review, the Alumni Relations Committee Co-Chair for the Black Allied Law Students Association (BALSA), the Community Chair for the Christian Legal Students Association (CLSA), and a member of the Asian-Pacific American Students Association (APALSA). While at NYU, he worked with the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law on efforts to advocate for racial and economic justice.
Prior to law school, Isaiah worked as a litigation paralegal at another New York law firm, supporting two commercial litigation trial teams and working on several pro bono cases focused on education and immigration. At Proskauer, Isaiah continues to have an active pro bono practice and leverages his experience and studies in litigation for all his matters.