Hofflund v. United States

In this suit plaintiff, an employee of the Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, seeks recovery of salary at his former higher rate of pay allegedly due him as a result of a reassignment and reclassification from a GS-15 to a GS-14 in a reorganization action. This portion of plaintiff’s claim is based on the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, 70 Stat. 291 (as referred to by the parties as the Salary Detention Act of 1956).

Plaintiff also seeks to recover salary at the rate of pay that pertained to his grade, on the ground that the reduction in grade was in violation of his…