White v. Department of the Air Force

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a policy disagreement cannot serve as the basis for a protected disclosure unless the legitimacy of a particular policy choice is not debatable among reasonable people
• stating that a mere policy dispute does not amount to a protected disclosure within the meaning of the whistleblower protection statutes
• whether asserted whistleblower had a reasonable belief is determined “at the time of his disclosure”
• “Mere differences of opinion between an employee and his agency superiors as to the proper approach to a particular problem or the most appropriate course of action do not rise to the level of gross mismanagement.”
• “[D]ebatable differences of opinion concerning policy matters are not protected disclosures.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).