5 U.S.C. § 7514
Section 7514 · Regulations
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Oliver v. United States Postal Service (1983)
Most recently applied in Williams v. Merit Sys. Prot. Bd. (June 2018)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations to carry out the purpose of this subchapter, except as it concerns any matter with respect to which the Merit Systems Protection Board may prescribe regulations.