John R. Middleton v. Department of Defense

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a former Federal employee made nonfrivolous allegations that he signed the settlement agreement, pursuant to which he retired, as a result of agency misinformation and coercion
• explaining that a determination as to whether an employee’s resignation was coerced is based on an objective test
• placing the “burden of pleading and proving involuntariness” on the appellant
• “The decisions of the Court of Claims are binding precedent for our court’s panels.” (citing South Corp. v. United States, 690 F.2d 1368, 1370 (Fed. Cir. 1982) (en banc))
• “[A]s an appellate court, we may not find facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).