Cone, George E. v. Caldera, Louis

How courts have described this case

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

• applying an “unusually deferential application” of the APA standard to a decision of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records
• applying heightened deference in a case involving Army Board for Correction of Military Records’ refusal to force quantitative personnel ratings to conform to a bell curve
• allowing the courts to become “a forum for appeals by every soldier dissatisfied with his or her ratings ... would take the judiciary far afield of its area of competence”
• allowing the courts to become “a forum for appeals by every soldier dissatisfied with his or her ratings … would take the judiciary far afield of its area of competence”
• “decisions of the [Air Force] Board [for Correction of Military Records] are renewable under the APA, albeit by an unusually deferential application of the ‘arbitrary or capricious’ standard”
• requiring an unusually high level of deference to ABCMR decisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).