Samuel Jacobowitz v. The United States

SKELTON, Judge.

Samuel Jaeobowitz, plaintiff, a non-veteran career employee with more than 22 years of government service, filed this suit for back pay on the ground that his discharge from his position as a GS-9 Revenue Officer in the Internal Revenue Service was procedurally defective and that the decision removing him was arbitrary and capricious and not supported by substantial evidence. We have concluded that judgment should be entered for the plaintiff.

This case is before us on plaintiff’s motion and defendant’s cross-motion for summary judgment.

On May 6, 1965, a notice of proposed…