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		<title>Reserve Troops&#8217; Job Woes Increase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual number of reservists and National Guard members who say they have been reassigned, lost benefits or been fired from civilian jobs after returning from duty has increased by about 30% since 2002. The sharp spike in complaints brought &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>VA Data Breach Widens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Area veterans, active-duty military, National Guard and Reserve members may be at risk for identity theft, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson announced in a media release Tuesday. About 2.2 million personnel may be at risk because they were among the &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/va-data-breach-widens/</link>
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		<title>Assembly Candidate Proposes State Takeover of DEP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mathew Tully, a Republican, who is seeking the 127th state Assembly district seat being vacated by Daniel Hooker, announced, last week, that his goal is to have New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) property and responsibility transferred to &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/assembly-candidate-proposes-state-takeover-of-dep/</link>
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		<title>Ruling Allows Reservists to Petition for Back Pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Butterbaugh&#8221; saga continues. A federal board has ruled that a new cohort of National Guard and military reservists may petition for back pay because of improperly charged military leave. A recent ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board, an &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/ruling-allows-reservists-to-petition-for-back-pay/</link>
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		<title>Federal Employee Reservists Eligible for Back Pay Dating to 1980</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal employees who served in the military reserves may now be eligible to be compensated for wrongly charged military leave dating as far back as 1980, because of a recent ruling from the Merit Systems Protection Board. Government workers are &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/federal-employee-reservists-eligible-for-back-pay-dating-to-1980/</link>
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		<title>Attorneys Urging Reservists to File Back-pay Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although efforts by a federal reservist to collect back pay from his civilian agency for time spent in uniform have hit a snag, the 100,000 federal reservists eligible for compensation under a previous court ruling should “file now and don’t &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/attorneys-urging-reservists-to-file-back-pay-claims/</link>
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		<title>Albany Law Firm to Add Staff After Court Hearing Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tully Rinkey &#38; Associates, the Albany, N.Y., law firm that&#8217;s made a name for itself in cases involving military reservists and National Guard members, is likely to add three more lawyers thanks to a December hearing victory that has gone &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/albany-law-firm-to-add-staff-after-court-hearing-victory/</link>
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		<title>Ruling on Back Pay for Federally Employed Reservists Faces Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department has decided to appeal a court ruling that could make federal employees who served in the military reserves eligible to receive compensation for wrongly charged leave as far back as the 1980s. Administrative Judge Philip Reed of &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/ruling-on-back-pay-for-federally-employed-reservists-faces-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Some Reservists to Get Back Pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reservists who worked for the federal government between 1980 and 2000 could have thousands of dollars coming to them, thanks to a court decision that awards back pay for weekends and vacations spent working for the Pentagon. The Nov. 18 &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/some-reservists-to-get-back-pay/</link>
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		<title>Guardsman Adjusts After Tour in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lawyer and 9/11 survivor who was deployed to Iraq on July 30 to take part in Operation Iraqi Freedom returned to civilian life Friday. Maj. Mathew B. Tully of Hunter said he was home for Christmas but wasn’t released &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://washington-dc.tullylegal.com/news/guardsman-adjusts-after-tour-in-iraq/</link>
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