SECURITY CLEARANCE DENIAL LITIGATION

Bellon & Lisiecki, LLP will zealously represent your interests in all of your security clearance matters.  Whether you are a federal employee or private contractor in the process of applying, retaining, or adjudicating your security clearance, Bellon & Lisiecki, LLP has the ability to maximize your changes for success. 

Why should you retain Bellon & Lisiecki, LLP?
- The United States Supreme Court has ruled that, “Security-clearance determinations should err, when they must, on the side of denials.”  When a security clearance is denied, an applicant’s rights are limited.  There is no right to a trial by jury, judicial review is exceedingly limited, and rebutting an unjustified denial is extremely challenging.
  
- Bellon & Lisiecki, LLP has the experience to protect your rights and interests in this difficult process.

- The ultimate determination of whether the granting or continuing of eligibility for a security clearance is clearly consistent with the interests of national security must be an overall common sense determination based upon careful consideration of the following, each of which is to be evaluated in the context of the whole person:

- Alcohol consumption                                              - Sexual behavior               
- Financial considerations                                       - Personal conduct              
- Drug involvement                                                    - Outside activities
- Criminal conduct                                                     - Foreign influence            
- Security violations                                                   - Allegiance to the United States         
- Foreign preferences                                              -Misuse of information technology systems           
- Emotional, mental and personality disorders                     

When evaluating the whole person, the security clearance process can look back as far as 7 years.   There are many gray areas which are considered in this determination and you need someone a zealous advocate to fight for you and ensure that your application is considered fairly.
- Do not trust your career to chance.  Bellon & Lisiecki, LLP has the experience to protect your rights and guard your interests throughout this difficult process.

- If a security clearance is initially denied, in most cases you have the following rights:

• Notice of specific reasons for the proposed action.
• An opportunity to respond to the reasons.
• Notice of the right to a hearing and the opportunity to cross-examine persons providing information adverse to the application.
• An opportunity to present evidence on your own behalf or to be represented by counsel or personal representative.
• Written notice of final clearance decisions.
• Notice of appeal procedures
• The security clearance procedure begins with the security application (SF 86) and it is vital to always answer or respond to an adjudicative issue regarding eligibility for a clearance.

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