Sherman v. Reavy

This proceeding is maintained on behalf of a number of petitioners who passed civil service examinations in 1937 for positions in the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance in the State Department of Labor. Their names appear on eligible lists for six different.positions established by the Department of Civil Service in December, 1937, and January, 1938. The petitioners remaining in the proceeding complain that they were not appointed to positions in the Department of Labor from the lists upon which their names appear.

In most instances the petitioners were not appointed because…