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· 6/3/1960

United States v. Stivers

Citations

  • 11 C.M.A. 512
  • 11 USCMA 512
  • 29 C.M.R. 328
  • 1960 CMA LEXIS 279
  • 1960 WL 4509

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the hardship of employee’s reassignment from Scranton to Philadelphia should only be borne if the reassignment was proper; where the reassignment was wrongful and relocation was difficult, employee’s subsequent retirement was rendered involuntary
  • holding that the hardship of employee’s reassignment from Scranton to Philadelphia should only be borne if the reassignment was proper; where the reassignment was wrongful and relocation was difficult, employee’s subsequent retirement was rendered involuntary
  • “An action is not voluntary if it is produced by government conduct 17 which is wrongful.”
  • “Of course, not every unpleasant working arrangement or distasteful set of alternatives constitutes duress or renders an otherwise voluntary act involuntary.”
  • “Because that reassignment was invalid rather than proper, it represented an unjustifiable coercive action ....”

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Judges: Fergüson, Latimer, Quinn

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