Court Opinion

ID: 9490861
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:56:50.26482+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:21.509743
License: Public Domain

*770ROGERS, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I join the opinion of the court save for its treatment of appellants’ request for equitable relief as a matter of constitutional standing. See opinion at [766]. Rather, because there was insufficient evidence to show that appellants were constructively discharged, given their voluntary departures, see opinion at 16-17, their request for equitable relief fails for lack of an evidentiary foundation. This finding seems to me to be the fundamental one. On their pleadings, appellants’ injury is traceable to appellees’ actions; that the court cannot credit the pleadings is not a standing analysis, but a determination of evidentiary sufficiency. See Claybrook v. Slater, 111 F.3d 904, 907 (D.C.Cir.1997); Florida Audubon Soc’y v. Bentsen, 94 F.3d 658, 664 n. 1 (D.C.Cir.1996) (en banc) (citing Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83, 101, 88 S.Ct. 1942, 1953, 20 L.Ed.2d 947 (1968)).