Gentry v. United States

This case comes before the court on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment on which we have received oral argument. Plaintiff, an illegitimate minor child, asks us by his guardian ad litem to award him benefits said to be due him under the Civil Service [Retirement Act of 1930, as amended, 5 U.S.C. §§ 8331 et seq. (1970), as the survivor of his deceased father, a retired civilian welder for the Navy. The Civil Service Commission’s (CSC) Bureau of [Retirement, Insurance, and Occupational Health, without deciding whether the deceased civil servant annuitant was the natural father of…