Billy Don Dunlap v. State of Tennessee

DUNCAN, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for injunctive, declaratory and pecuniary relief for defendants’ alleged violation of plaintiff’s rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The complaint was brought by Billy Don Dunlap against various officials associated with the Tennessee Air National Guard. The District Court held that this case, involving as it does a decision by the military, does not raise questions which may properly be reviewed by a civil court.

Prior to the events which led to…