Legal Opinion
Zitser v. Walsh
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided December 8, 1972No. Civ. 15094PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON MOTION TO DISMISS
BLUMENFELD, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Barry Zitser is an enlisted member of the Connecticut National Guard who successfully applied for admission to the Guard’s Officer Candidate School (OCS). Upon arrival at OCS, he and his classmates were asked to submit an autobiography. Defendant Colonel Donald J. Acker, 1 the officer in charge of OCS, concluded on the basis of statements critical of military practices made by the plaintiff in this autobiography and in a subsequent interview that the plaintiff would not meet the standards of the applicable regulation, NGR 351-5,…
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