Pasquale J. Benenati, Jr. v. Philip Young, Chairman, Civil Service Commission

Pursuant to charges preferred by the District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which were finally sustained by the Civil Service Commission after initial and intermediate administrative consideration, the appellant was dismissed from his position as a security officer at Ellis Island, New York.

He sued in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for a declaration that he was dismissed “in violation of his statutory and constitutional rights.” The Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission were the…