Legal Opinion
Calvin Geyen, Jr. v. John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the United States Army
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1985No. 84-4607PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Calvin Geyen filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana seeking to have his Army discharge upgraded from undesirable to honorable. He alleges (1) that the Army violated the Constitution and its own regulations in involuntarily activating him in 1969 and twice denying him a hardship discharge in 1970, and (2) that the decision of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records (ABCMR) 1 denying him an upgraded discharge was arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by substantial evidence, and erroneous as a matter…
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