Kannaby v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

ORDER

John C. Kannaby sued his employer, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), and eight Army officials, alleging that the defendants violated his constitutional rights and raising a variety of tort claims. The district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, Kannaby appeals, and we affirm.

In August 1997 Kannaby, a civil engineer, was suspended for twelve days for insubordination after his superiors assigned him to work at a particular work site in Chicago and he refused. According to Kannaby, he refused because the assignment should have been voluntary, would have exposed…