Cason v. United States

This case comes before the court on plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration. A decision was rendered in this case on June 16, 1972, 198 Ct. Cl. 650, 461 F. 2d 784. Its was thereafter discovered that due to no fault of the plaintiff, plaintiff’s response to defendant’s supplemental memorandum on the question of laches was never distributed to the judges of this court. Because of the possible unfairness to plaintiff’s position the court agreed to consider plaintiff’s supplemental memorandum and to rehear the case.

Plaintiff, a former enlisted man in the Navy, a diver, was involuntarily separated…