Legal Opinion
David Falk v. Secretary of the Army
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 30, 1989No. 499, Docket 88-6133PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
In 1964 appellant resigned from the United States Army as a result of his admitted homosexual conduct and was given an undesirable discharge. Years later he initiated and pursued a number of administrative proceedings, succeeding in upgrading his discharge from undesirable to honorable, and in having his 1964 medical diagnosis changed from homosexual to immature personality disorder. On this appeal he seeks an order compelling the Army to change the reason and the cited authority (the regulation on homosexual conduct) under which his military service was terminated.
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