Legal Opinion
Major Adolph H. Knehans, Jr. v. Clifford L. Alexander, Secretary of the Army
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 3, 1977No. 76-1126PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TAMM, Circuit Judge:
Our appellant, former Major Knehans, was honorably discharged from the United States Army pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 3303 (1970)1 for having been twice passed over for promotion by a Statutory Selection Board. In order to prevent his imminent discharge, Knehans brought an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to invalidate it on grounds of procedural noncompliance, alleging that submission of his .defectively constituted personnel file had rendered the review to which he was statutorily entitled a nullity. After Knehans had exhausted his…
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