Ellis

Civilian pay, reduction-in-force; scope of review of Civil Service Commission decisions; establishment of competitive level; illegality of contract under which plaintiff’s job was performed after RIF. — On April 18, 1980 the court entered the following order:

Before Davis, Judge, Presiding, Nichols and Kashiwa, Judges.

Plaintiff James M. Ellis brings this action in order to challenge the reduction-in-force (RIF) which separated him from the position he held with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Plaintiff was removed from his job as a GS-9 Mechanical Engineering…