Tierney v. United States

Plaintiff, a veteran’s preference eligible, is seeking recovery on two interrelated claims. He first alleges that he was wrongfully denied promotion'by the Public Housing Administration from a GS-13 to a GS-14 level on October 1,1954. He then alleges that his removal from Government employment by .the same agency on July 11,1956, was wrongful due to certain procedural defects. He therefore asks for the difference in salary between grade GS-13 and GS-14 from October 1, 1954, to July 11, 1956, and for the compensation he would have earned subsequent to July 11, 1956, had he not been removed,…