Donald S. Roth v. Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, denying a motion for a preliminary and permanent injunction and dismissing appellant’s complaint. After oral argument had been heard on the motion for a preliminary injunction, the district court permitted an appeal through military channels of the Army’s denial of appellant’s request for a transfer to the Standby Reserve based on extreme community hardship. Two weeks after the Army’s decision in this appeal was rendered, adverse to appellant, the district court, having received no…