Erdwein v. United States

The plaintiff in this civil service pay case was, until January 27, 1976, Hyman L. Erdwein, a former GS-9 meat inspector in the Department of Agriculture whose suspension and dismissal gave rise to this action. On that date, Hyman Erdwein died.1 The opinion of Trial Judge Louis Spector, filed July 27, 1976, vindicated plaintiffs efforts to overcome the adverse actions, but plaintiff did not live to know it. The trial judge found that plaintiff was entitled to back pay for both the time he was suspended2 from duty and the aftermath of his subsequent dismissal, because the charges underlying…