Drucker v. United States

In this joint civilian pay case, plaintiffs claim entitlement to be “slotted” in the upper category of professorial rank at the 'Merchant Marine Academy (Academy), and charge the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs with abuse of discretion in not so slotting them. We hold that there was no abuse of discretion, and that the administrative decision that plaintiffs should not be so slotted is supported by substantial evidence.

The facts in the instant controversy were adequately set forth in our first decision of this case, Drucker and Pearson v. United States, 195 Ct. Cl. 335,…