James M. Moore v. Administrator, Veterans Administration, Chairman and Commissioners, United States Civil Service System

Appellants, career nursing assistants at a Veterans Administration Hospital, were removed from their positions for mistreating a patient and failing to report the incident. Following notice of dismissal 1 and appellants’ written denials of the charges, separate hearings were conducted for each appellant and the charges sustained. On appeal to the Administrator of the Veterans Administration, the decision of removal was upheld. Thereafter appellants pursued their ample administrative remedies, and, following a lengthy series of appeals before the Civil Service Commission, their removal was…