Legal Opinion
Kirby v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided May 11, 1973No. 760-71PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBennett, Judge
The plaintiff is a former Air Force master sergeant who on October 12,1971, brought this suit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1491 in an attempt to recover active duty back pay and allowances and retired pay and allowances denied him as a result of an alleged illegal discharge he received from the Air Force on May 2, 1963. The court concludes with respect to the active duty pay claim that the plaintiff’s petition must be dismissed as outside our jurisdiction for having failed to hurdle the threshold issue of the 6-year statute of limitations (28 U.S.C. § 2501). With respect to the retired pay claim…
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