Mark M. Akins v. The United States

ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION AND PLAINTIFFS’ CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

DURFEE, Judge.

Plaintiffs were employees of the National Capital Transportation Agency (hereinafter NCTA) which was created on July 14, 1960, as a temporary Federal agency to aid in coordinating the transportation systems in the Washington Metropolitan area. 1 The same law which created this agency authorized the States of Maryland and Virginia and the District of Columbia to organize a permanent instrumentality which would undertake the same functions as the NCTA. Pursuant to this authority, a public non-Federal agency,…