Legal Opinion
Rooney v. Secretary of the Army
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 3, 2005No. 04-5004PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed'by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge.
Major Richard Rooney seeks a declaratory judgment that his obligation to the Army terminated when the Army discharged him in February 2002, and that the. Army’s subsequent revocation of his discharge on the ground that it was procured by fraud was unlawful. The district court granted the Army’s motion for summary judgment,- and Rooney appealed. We conclude that a petition for a writ of habeas corpus' is the exclusive avenue of relief for Rooney, and that the Western District of Texas rather than the District of…
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