Legal Opinion
James M. Woodward v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 12, 1989No. 86-1283PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant James M. Woodward appeals the summary judgment of the United States Claims Court, No. 692-83C (March 31, 1986), upholding the decision of the Department of the Navy (Navy) to release him from active duty. We affirm that judgment, but on other grounds.
Background
Woodward enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve in June 1972. At that time, he completed a fitness questionnaire in which he indicated, according to the trial court, that “he was attracted sexually to, or desired sexual activity with, members of his own sex [but that he had never] engaged in homosexual…
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