Evensen v. United States

Ronald P. Evensen served on active duty as an officer of the United States Army Reserves from March 1961 through his involuntary release as a major in January 1978. This suit for military pay challenges the validity of his nonselection by two normal promotion boards and by a Standby Advisory Board (STAB), and his consequent release from active duty. It is common ground that the original 1976 and 1977 promotion boards had before them two defective Officer Effectiveness Reports (OERs) which were later voided by the Army Board for Correction of Military Records, and that Major Evensen was…