District Court, District of Columbia February 21, 2017, Civil Action No. 15-1644(BAH) (Townsend v. United States)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BERYL A. HOWELL, Chief Judge

The plaintiff, Mark William Townsend, brings this action against his former employer, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), as well as the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the United States of America (collectively, the “agency defendants”), and ten current and former employees of the EPA and DOJ (collectively,