Chester I. Staats v. United States Postal Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee is not entitled to a hearing on the issue of involuntariness ■ unless he “makes a non-frivolous allegation that, if proved, would establish Board jurisdiction”
• concluding that the choice between “two unattractive options” does not render a decision to retire or resign involuntary
• holding that an example of an involuntary resignation based on coercion is a resignation induced by a threat to take disciplinary action that the agency knows could not be substantiated
• holding that an example of an involuntary resignation based on coercion is a resignation induced by a threat to take disciplinary action that the agency knows could not be substantiated
• holding that “the doctrine of coercive involuntariness is a narrow one”
• determining that 2 weeks or longer to decide whether to retire is sufficiently long to render the choice voluntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).