Long

This civilian pay case comes before the court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff, a former Treasury Department employee and a veteran’s preference eligible with 30 years of Government service, seeks back pay and reinstatement to his former position from which he retired on April 10, 1976. He claims that his retirement was involuntary because it was the result of wrongful Government conduct amounting to coercion, duress, time pressure, and intimidation, and, further, that his proposed transfer, which resulted in retirement because he found the transfer unacceptable, would…