Julia E. Hart v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

This action presents two questions to the court. First, was plaintiff denied a personal hearing at the agency level on the charges against her in violation of her rights under section 14 of the Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944, 1 and, also, was the action of her superiors in placing her on involuntary annual leave a violation of her rights under section 6 of the Lloyd-La Follette Act of 1912, as amended? 2

In substance, the facts are these: plaintiff, a preference eligible, had been employed for more than ten years as a stenographer in the New York office of the Antitrust…