in institutions worldwide.

"There are decades of research showing that institutionalizing children is inherently damaging," Rowling said. "It's damaging physically, it's damaging psychologically, it's damaging emotionally."

Rowling originally founded Lumos in Europe to help countries reform how they deal with vulnerable children. The organization is named after a light-giving magic spell in her phenomenally successful series about a boy wizard,

Lumos has been working over the last decade in central and eastern Europe, and is now expanding to Latin America and Caribbean. Rowling said the organization has been invited to work in Haiti, where she said a majority of children in orphanages and institutions actually have parents, but those parents are unable to care for them.

Rowling said the organization hoped to tap into America's generous charitable giving, as well as impactof Veterans
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                           OPINION

STROM, District Judge:

   Appellant Dr. William Weber (“Dr. Weber”) appeals from
the February 23, 2006, order of the United States District
Court for the District of Montana denying his motion for sum-
mary judgment on his claim for back pay under the Back Pay
Act, 5 U.S.C. § 5596, and granting appellees’ motion to dis-
miss Dr. Weber’s claim.

                      I. BACKGROUND

   On October 1, 1997, Dr. Weber was appointed to the posi-
tion of staff radiologist at the Veterans Administration Medi-
cal