Ruffin v. United States

This is a suit by a veteran’s preference eligible to recover salary he would have earned if he had:not been separated from his job in the Post Office Department. He alleges that he slapped his supervisor but contends that the action of the Post Office Department in dismissing him as a result of this incident was arbitrary and capricious, in that the slapping incident was provoked by the bias and insults of *690his supervisor and does not amount to cause within the meaning of section 14 of the Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944, 58 Stat. 887, 390, as amended 61 Stat. 723.

Defendant has moved for…