Hendricks v. United States

In these consolidated civilian pay cases, plaintiffs, married female employees of the Panama Canal Government or a Canal Zone office of a United States Government agency, claim they have been deprived by regulation of what is known as an overseas tropical differential allowance. Because the regulations correctly deny plaintiffs’ entitlement to the tropical differential and because we find no abuse of discretion, we hold for defendant.

Plaintiffs’ attack on the denial of the tropical differential •requires scrutiny of the statutory underpinnings of the Canal Zone Government and its wage and…