Smith v. United States

Plaintiff, an employee in the classified civil service and entitled to veterans’ preference, was separated from his grade GS-12 position with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as the result of a reduction in force. His claim is founded upon an alleged violation of the procedural guarantees of the Veterans’ Preference Act, 5 U.S.C. 863, the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, 5 CFR (1952 Supp.) 20.5, and upon the alleged arbitrary and capricious action of the officials of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in abolishing plaintiff’s position and reassigning him to the same…