James F. Sexton v. David M. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Sexton appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, denying his motion for a summary judgment and granting the summary judgment motion of the government. The effect of the judgment was to sustain his discharge from government employment.

Sexton had been an IRS agent for some ten years before his continuing commentary about the quality of his supervision resulted in his transfer (on grounds of incompatibility) from the Cleveland IRS office to that in Dayton. Sexton refused to go and was fired…