Vernon E. Hargray v. City of Hallandale

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• holding that employee’s decision to resign was vol- untary even where employer threatened he would face criminal charges if he failed to do so
• recognizing that the plaintiff had advance notice of the charges against him
• clarifying that whether a resignation was involuntary due to coercion or duress is a “legal conclusion” for the Court to decide
• explaining that an employee given the choice of resigning or facing criminal charges resigned voluntarily under the circumstances
• holding “a court may find a resignation to be involuntary if induced by an employee’s reasonable reliance upon an employer’s misrepresentation of a material fact concerning the resignation”
• finding that a voluntary resignation, “even where the only alternative is facing possible termination for cause or criminal charges,” does not meet the standard for a constitutional deprivation of property under the Due Process Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).