BELL v. GROAK

No. 15625.

371 F.2d 202 (1966)

Cornelius BELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E. T. GROAK, Chairman, Board of Appeals and Review, U. S. Civil Service Commission, J. A. Connor, Regional Director, Chicago Regional Office, U. S. Civil Service Commission, John Macy, Chairman, Civil Service Commission, Ludwig Andolsek and Robert Hampton, Commissioners, Civil Service Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

December 8, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Robinson Fishman, Arthur DeBofsky, Fishman & Fishman, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Alan S. Rosenthal, Asst. Atty. Gen., Martin Jacobs, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward V. Hanrahan, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., J. William Doolittle, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge and SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.


DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment that the United States Civil Service Commission must accept his appeal and grant him a hearing on the merits of his "discharge" as a post office employee. The District Court entered an order dismissing the complaint on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction to grant the relief sought.

In September 1949, plaintiff was employed as a distribution clerk at the United States Post Office in Chicago...

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