Levy v. Woods

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Levy brought this suit for a mandatory injunction .restoring him to a government position with back pay. He first entered government service in 1918, as a result of a civil service examination, and was employed more or less continuously until 1921. Twenty-two years later, on November 15, 1943, he received a “War Service Appointment — Reinstatement-In-def.” as a Labor Economist, P-4, in the War Production Board. On September 29, 1944, his supervisor wrote him a letter charging him with tactless or uncooperative conduct on various occasions, stating that his…