Verrault’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
December 1983
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Peters v. United States · Power v. United States · Wathen v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“Those cases [Boyce and Power], however, were not intended to overrule or modify the long-held position of this court, that within a wide range of discretion, and absent manifest abuse of discretion, choice of penalty in adverse action cases was for the employing agency and the Civil Service Commission, not the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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