Hasan v. Secretary of Labor

• Court: Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Decided: March 24, 2004
• Docket: 03-1981
• Status: Published

Opinion

Not for Publication in West's Federal Reporter Citation Limited Pursuant to lst Cir. Loc. R. 32.3

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit

No. 03-1981

SYED M.A. HASAN,

Petitioner,

v.

SECRETARY OF LABOR, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR,

Respondent.

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Before

Torruella, Circuit Judge, Cyr and Stahl, Senior Circuit Judges.

Syed M.A. Hasan, on brief pro se. Mary J. Rieser, Attorney, Office of the Solicitor, Division of Fair Labor Standards, Howard M. Radzely, Acting Solicitor of Labor, Steven J. Mandel, Associate Solicitor and Paul L. Frieden, Counsel for Appellate Litigation, on brief for respondent.

March 24, 2004 Per Curiam. After carefully considering the briefs and

record on appeal, we affirm.

The appellant argues that his complaint should not have

been dismissed because it contained the short, plain statement of

his claim required by Swierkiewicz v. Sorema, 534 U.S. 506

(2002). However, Swierkiewicz is inapposite. First, the

appellant's case was not dismissed solely on the basis of the

allegations of his complaint. Secondly, the Energy

Reorganization Act, unlike the statutes at issue in Swierkiewicz,

includes a gatekeeping restriction. See 42 U.S.C. §

5851(b)(3)(A); 29 C.F.R. § 24.5(b); Trimmer v. Department of

Labor, 174 F.3d 1098 (10th Cir. 1999).

Appellant's argument that he was entitled to additional

discovery is unavailing, as are his remaining arguments. The

requested discovery would not have tended to rectify the defect

in his case.

Affirmed. Loc. R. 27(c).

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