· 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
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- 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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