Lodge 1858, American Federation of Government Employees v. Webb

OPINION

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

This is an action by a Union of Federal Government employees and certain individual employees to enjoin a Government agency from discharging or demoting a large number of employees or, in the alternative, render a declaratory judgment adjudicating that the action of the Government, of which the plaintiffs complain, is invalid and in violation of law. The defendants move to dismiss the complaint as not stating a valid claim for relief.

This is a most extraordinary suit. To ask the courts to enjoin a Government agency from discharging employees or demoting them…