Carolyn Kiiskila v. United States

Plaintiff was a civilian employed at will as office manager of a credit union at the Fort Sheridan, Illinois, military reservation. On October 28, 1968, Colonel Nichols, then the com manding officer of the post, issued an order permanently excluding her from Fort Sheridan because of her alleged violation of Fort Sheridan Regulation No. 27-1. 2 In our previous en banc opinion involving these facts, we held that plaintiff’s exclusion from the base and the concomitant loss of her job were unconstitutional under the First Amendment. 433 F.2d 745.

On remand, the district court invalidated Colonel…