Walsh v. United States

The plaintiffs sue to recover the pay of which they were deprived by a reevaluation of their positions as administrative enrollees in the United States Maritime Service, assigned for duty to the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point, New York. They allege that the reevaluation of their positions, reducing their pay, was made according to the provisions and standards of the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 954, 958, 5 U. S. C. 1071, 1101 (b), which act is not applicable to their positions, and was made in violation of the provisions of section 216 (a) of the Merchant Marine…