Legal Opinion
Robert B. JORDAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America and Howard Callaway, Secretary of the Army, Defendants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 22, 1975No. 75-1010PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.
This case involves a charge of discrimination against the plaintiff because of his race. The District Court dismissed the action after trial to the court. “[I]t may well be,” held the court, “that plaintiff has failed to comply with the exhaustion requirement * * *The court went on to find that it was “abundantly clear that there has been no racial discrimination” and dismissed the action. We affirm the dismissal, but we do not reach the merits. In this action against the sovereign there was no jurisdiction in the court below because of failure to exhaust…
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- Land v. DollarSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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