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Court opinion issued May 18, 2022

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Schmitz v. DOD Inspector Gen. (E.D. Va.) -- holding that plaintiff’s failure to file administrative appeals from any of his three requests to DOD IG warranted dismissal of his case on exhaustion grounds; rejecting plaintiff’s arguments that appeals would have been futile and that litigation productions by a different DOD component precluded an exhaustion defense.

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