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· 7/14/1997

William James Coffman v. State of Michigan and Michigan Army National Guard, United States Department of the Army

Citations

  • 120 F.3d 57
  • 6 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 1820
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 17497
  • 1997 WL 383181

How courts have described this case

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  • cited with approval in Baldwin and stating that Rehabilitation Act does not apply to uniformed members of the armed forces
  • “Consistent with the reasoning in Chappell, courts of appeals have consistently refused to extend statutory remedies available to civilians to uniformed members of the armed forces absent a clear direction from Congress to do so.”

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Judges: Kennedy, Contie, Norris

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