McKechnie v. United States

The question in this personnel case is the timeliness of plaintiffs appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) on May 15, 1979. The suit, which comes before us on cross-motions for summary judgment, stems from a notice of proposed separation for inefficiency that plaintiff John C. McKechnie received in August 1978. Mr. McKech-nie had worked as a research electronic engineer with the Naval Training Equipment Center (NTEC), Department of the Navy, in Orlando, Florida, since the beginning of 1968. In the summer of 1978 he was a GS-13. On or about August 22, 1978, he received the notice…