Jerome J. Pine v. The United States

Plaintiff, a veterans’ preference eligible, was removed on charges from his employment with the Army Pictorial Center in New York. Timely appeals were taken to the Civil Service Commission’s regional office and to the Commission’s Board of Appeals and Review, both of which sustained the removal. Plaintiff has moved for summary judgment on the single ground that his removal was unlawful in that, despite two requests by him that his supervisor and a fellow-employee be made available for cross-examination at the Civil Service Commission hearing, those witnesses were not produced. Cf. Williams v.…