Scroggins v. United States

This is another case in which a civilian government worker contests her involuntary placement on the disability retirement list. See Lula A. McGlasson v. United States, decided this day, post, at 542. Mrs. Scroggins was a food service worker in the cafeteria of the Public Health Service Plospital in Baltimore. In April 1965, following an altercation with a fellow-worker and plaintiff’s continuing complaints about that employee, the hospital asked her to submit to a psychiatric examination. She requested that this be done at Johns Hopkins Hospital but did not give the name of the doctor she…