Legal Opinion
Andrew L. W. Gordon v. David M. Shoup, Commandant of the Marine Corps
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 21, 1963No. 17163PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAZELON, Chief Judge.
This suit is the latest phase of a long controversy over retirement pay for our appellant Gordon, a Marine officer who retired in 1943.
In 1956 the Court of Claims' allowed him recovery of a retroactive increase in retirement pay for the period 1949-56, but held that the six-year statute of limitations on claims within the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims 1 barred recovery for the period 1943-49. 2 The General Accounting Office thereupon paid the increase for the period 1944-49, holding that recovery for the period 1943-44 was barred by the ten-year statute of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Almour v. Pace, Secretary of the ArmyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Gordon v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1956
- Di Benedetto v. MorgenthauCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Hurley v. ShanleyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1932
3Cited by5 opinions
- Albert H. Carter v. Robert Seamans, Jr., as Secretary of the Air ForceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Cape Fox Corp. v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Alaska · 1978
- Parrish v. SeamansDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1972
- Thomas William Ireland v. George P. Shultz, Secretary of StateCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1987
- McCarron v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2008