Legal Opinion
Day v. Mathews
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 23, 1976No. Nos. 75-1085 and 75-1652PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Per curiam
In 1970 appellee Day, who is black, was serving as a Wage Grade 8 (WG-8) employee of the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Baltimore, a unit of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). On June 5 of that year he applied for a WG-10 opening at the hospital, but approximately a month later that post was awarded to a Mr. West, a competing white applicant. Day filed a prompt administrative complaint, charging that he had been denied the promotion because of racial discrimination.
Day pursued the issue through all levels of HEW and Civil Service Commission review, but he…
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