Roberta I. Thomas v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff sues for 10 months’ back pay for asserted wrongful removal as a civilian employee of the Army performing services as a clerk-stenographer, GS-3, and stationed in Germany.

The essential facts are undisputed.

The plaintiff was employed in 1953. She was in an excepted position under 5 C.F.R. 6.101(h) Schedule A. This regulation provides that any position beyond the continental limits of the United States may be filled without examination by the Civil Service Commission if appointment through competitive examination is regarded as impracticable.

On November 29, 1954,…