Friedman v. Schwellenbach

WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justice.

As of September 12, 1944, the appellant, Morton Friedman, was discharged from the position of chief of the classification division of the War Manpower Commission because the United States Civil Service Commission had determined that there was a reasonable doubt as to his loyalty to the Government of the United States. Soon thereafter he sued in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia for a declaration that he had been improperly dismissed and that he was entitled to reinstatement. Other relief sought was that the chairman of the…