Foley v. United States

Plaintiff, a civil service employee but not a veteran, served as a Supervisory Legal Assistant, grade GS-12, at the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center in Denver. In the course of a reduction in force, in 1957, the Center decided to abolish one of four similar positions of Supervisory Legal Assistant, GS-12. As the employee in that competitive level with the least retention credits, plaintiff was the one demoted; she was forced to fall back to a GS-7 position but ultimately reattained grade GS-12. She sues for the pay lost because of this demotion. Her claim is that the demotion was…