· 11/24/1987
Norman W. Hanson v. Office of Personnel Management
Citations
- 833 F.2d 1568
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 707
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that misrepresentations made by Office Personnel Management and Office of Workers Compensation Programs officials to a benefits recipient did not constitute affirmative misconduct because the officials acted in good faith on the basis of the then accepted reading of the statute
- “It is now settled that to estop the Government there must at least be affirmative misconduct, leading to unfairness, on the part of a Government official.”
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Judges: Cowen, Davis, Friedman
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