Cutler v. United States

Davis, Judge,

delivered -the opinion of the court:

Wallace Cutler is a former defense-contractor employee who was allegedly discharged because the Defense Department initially denied him security clearance; some years later he was officially cleared. In this action he seeks monetary restitution under a departmental regulation providing for reimbursement by the Government of earnings lost by a contractor employee denied clearance if he later receives a favorable determination.1

Cutler’s submission, in the form of a motion for summary judgment, is as follows: In 1957 he was employed by Emerson…