She pursued an EEO complaint. Hours later, the accusation hit
A former federal contractor says Booz Allen Hamilton denied her a temporary building transfer - then fired her over a threat she insists she never made.
Christy J. Seelie filed suit against Booz Allen Hamilton on May 5, 2026, in the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia, alleging disability discrimination, harassment, failure to accommodate, and retaliatory discharge under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Virginia Human Rights Act. She is seeking $1 million.
For HR teams, the complaint reads like a sequence chart of how an accommodation request can spiral into a retaliation claim.
Seelie was a Senior Knowledge Manager on Booz Allen's Army contract at the National Ground Intelligence Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. She earned $115,000 a year plus benefits, supporting work for the Analytic Methodologist and Site Threats project. The complaint says she had been at the site, in various roles, for nearly six years.
In late January 2025, she began having trouble breathing. Throat closures. Swollen lymph nodes. Rashes. The complaint says she visited several emergency departments over three weeks and saw oncology, hematology, and laryngology specialists. In June 2025, after she was fired, she was diagnosed with systemic mastocytosis, a rare blood cancer.
On February 10, 2025, her primary care physician sent a letter asking that Seelie be allowed a "trial of work from another on-site...
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