Rumph v. United States

Plaintiff in this pro se military pay case seeks an award of back pay and compensatory damages stemming from an improper bad conduct discharge from the Army. The case comes before us, without oral argument, on cross-motions *856for summary judgment. Claimant enlisted in the United States Army as a private on December 18, 1967. On March 4, 1969, he was convicted by general court-martial of an aggravated assault and was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, to be confined at hard labor for one year, to forfeit all pay and allowances, and to be reduced to the grade of private E-l. The convening…