Kathy J. Smith v. John E. Potter, Postmaster General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• the letter provided, “You are hereby notified that you will be removed from the Postal Service on November 27, 1998”
• “[W]e need not resolve this issue to dispose of [the] appeal . . . .”
• “[B]ecause we need not resolve this issue to dispose of [the] appeal, we reserve judgment . . . .”
• “Given the pervasiveness of correct information at Smith’s workplace, it is disingenuous of her to argue that she reasonably relied on a single, brief telephone call to lead her astray.”
• a federal court is not “under any obligation to defer to the determination of an administrative agency in an action which falls under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”
• “Once an agency has dismissed or otherwise disposed of a complaint, federal employees have the right to appeal that decision to the EEOC, see 29 C.F.R. §§ 1614.403 et seq., or file a complaint in federal court, see 29 C.F.R. § 1614.407.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).