Rachel J. Tretchick v. Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting suggestion that there is an “absolute right” to rescission in response to a breach and rejecting rescission where any purported breach had been cured
• stating that an anticipatory repudiation “must be a distinct unequivocal absolute refusal to perform .,, treated and acted upon as such by the party to whom the promise was made” (quoting Dingley v. Oler, 117 U.S. 490, 503, 6 S.Ct. 850, 29 L.Ed. 984 (1886))
• “If the agreement is shown to be invalid or the agency is found to have breached the agreement, ... the agreement may not constitute a valid basis for the agency to refuse the employee’s withdrawal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).