Harris v. United States

Plaintiff, a veterans’ preference eligible, was demoted in a 1953 reorganization of the Claims Division of the General Accounting Office. He seeks back pay from the time of his demotion to the present at the difference between the GS-T position to which he was assigned and the GS-8 position to which he contends he should have been assigned. He alleges violation of the retention preference regulations. The case arises on cross-motions for summary judgment, and the following facts are presented by the record.

Plaintiff was employed by the General Accounting Office in the grade 8 position of…