Legal Opinion
Tilden R. Wilkinson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 27, 1982No. 81-2080PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
We refer from time to time to a case as a hard one. We may mean that it is close and difficult to decide. Or we may mean, as we do here, that, while it is not so close, it is nevertheless difficult to decide because of its harsh impact on one of the parties. The other party to the case is innocent of any impropriety occasioning the hardship; whether others involved may have been equally free of criticism is a matter we need not address.
Here we have such a case.
On October 3, 1978, in the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the plaintiff, Tilden R. Wilkinson, as a…
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