Bettie Davis v. Veterans Administration

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “any sustained charge of AWOL is inherently connected to the efficiency of the service”
• holding that “any sustained charge of AWOL is inherently connected to the efficiency of the service”
• finding nexus between the appellant’s prolonged AWOL and the efficiency of the service because absence, by its very nature, disrupts the efficiency of the service
• an essential element of employment is to be on the job when one is expected to be there
• “The penalty assessed for employee misconduct is a matter of the exercise of the sound discretion of an agency in light of all relevant factors, mitigating and otherwise.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).