Ruby Weston v. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an employee can be removed for refusing to cooperate in an agency investigation if, among other things, the employee is informed that information obtained from the employee will not be used in a criminal proceeding against him
• concluding states may “compel[] answers to pertinent questions about the performance of an employee’s duties . . . when that employee is duly advised of his options to answer under the immunity granted or remain silent and face dismissal”
• declining to mitigate a removal for refusing to cooperate in an investigation
• “In reviewing the ap- propriateness of an agency-imposed removal, it is not the place of this court to determine what course would have been pursued were we in charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).