Legal Opinion
Powell v. Department of Defense
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 3, 1998No. 97-5326PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.
RANDOLPH, Circuit Judge:
Lawana Powell had been a longtime federal employee when, in 1995, she was — according to her lights — constructively terminated from her job as a personnel security specialist in the Department of Defense. In response to some unexplained absences — a source of suspicion in a security-conscious agency like the Defense Department — Powell was given the choice of accepting reassignment to a non-sensitive temporary position or submitting to immediate termination. She chose the former. Powell’s temporary position expired…
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