Court Opinion

ID: 9455454
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:22:51.147987+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:36.543687
License: Public Domain

NICHOLS, Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the opinion and judgment of the court. As I said, concurring, in Cosby v. United States, 417 F.2d 1345, 1346, 189 Ct.Cl. 528, 530 (1969):
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If an employee’s continued presence in an agency is regarded as undesirable, and if he tenders any piece of paper purporting to be a resignation, the temptation is to snatch at it, thus avoiding the complex ritual and uncertain outcome of an adverse action. It is, I believe, the duty of the personnel officer nevertheless to scrutinize the paper with care, and to reject it as a resignation if it states, clearly or ambiguously, that the resignation is coerced. * * *
The same is true if the statement is made in a separate communication submitted by the employee simultaneously or at any time before the purported resignation takes effect.