Karamanos v. Egger

882 F.2d 447 Andrew B. KARAMANOS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Roscoe L. EGGER, Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue; David Blackorby; Richard Welcome; Internal Revenue Service; T. Blair Evans; Joseph Lippi; Jack Sweet; Carolyn Leonard, Defendants-Appellees. No. 87-3629. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued June 7, 1988. Submitted June 5, 1989. Decided Aug. 16, 1989. James S. Coon, Imperati, Barnett, Sherwood, and Coon, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellant. Judith D. Kobbervig, Asst. U.S. Atty., Portland, Or., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before HUG, FLETCHER and NELSON, Circuit Judges. NELSON, Circuit Judge: 1 Mr. Karamanos is an IRS agent classified at a GS-12 level. He spent much of his time on GS-13 work over several years. Finding this situation unfair, he applied for reclassification. In response, defendant Welcome transferred all GS-13 work away from Karamanos. Karamanos' request for reclassification was not acted upon. He therefore appealed to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which ruled that reclassification was inappropriate based on only a single GS-13 case, even though that…