Legal Opinion
Michael L. St. Clair v. Secretary of Navy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 1998No. 97-3993PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Michael St. Clair, a sailor, ran into trouble during the fall of 1991 when he was arrested, twice, for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol over a span of several weeks. Because there seems to be no place for such a sailor in the nuclear submarine service of the United States Navy, the Navy gave St. Clair the heave ho with a general discharge rather than an honorable one. St. Clair has fought hard to get his discharge upgraded to honorable. Today we consider his appeal from a district court judgment that failed to go his way.
In 1991, St.…
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