Fitzpatrick v. Snyder

WYZANSKI, District Judge.

This is a suit for an injunction. Its object is to prevent the Commander of the Boston Naval Shipyard and his subordinate the Chief Civilian Assistant to the Industrial Relations Officer at that yard from discharging plaintiff. Ultimately the question is whether, under § 12 of the Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944, 58 Stat. 387, 390, 5 U.S.C.A. § 861, when reduction-in-force discharges are made a veteran with an indefinite appointment but without civil service status is entitled to retention preference over nonveterans also with indefinite appointments but with the…