Jackson v. United States

More than 5y2 years prior to the commencement of this suit plaintiffs were removed from their positions as civilian employees of the Department of the Army. In tiffs action, they allege both procedural and substantive irregularities in their removal proceedings and, upon these grounds, they base their present claims to back pay.

Plaintiffs are all veterans’ preference eligibles, who, at the time of their removals, were in the excepted service, work*31ing for the Department of the Army in Japan. On March 2, 1956, each of the six was tried by a general conrt-martial, convened at Tokyo, Japan.1 The…