Atkinson v. United States

The plaintiff, a veterans preference eligible, sues to recover Civil Service pay lost as a result of an alleged illegal removal for cause from his position of attorney-adviser in tbe Chicago Chemical Procurement District of the Army, effective April 3,1953.

The plaintiff contends that his removal was procedurally defective under the Veterans Preference Act of 1944,58 Stat. 390, 5 U. S. C. 863, the Performance Eating Act of 1950, 64 Stat. 1098, 5 U. S. C. 2001, Civil Service regulations, and regulations of the Department of the Army.

On August 15,1951, plaintiff received an excepted appointment…