Lindsey v. United States

Plaintiff Robert Lindsey is a retired government employee, formerly with the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice. In February 1974 he was absent from his job for 76 working hours as a consequence of knee surgery. He was entitled to compensation for that time by charging the hours against his approximately 2,000 hours of accumulated sick leave. However, he properly requested and was permitted instead to charge the time against his accumulated annual leave balance.1 He made this choice because at the time of his surgery he thought that he was a few years from…