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WILSON v. SECRETARY OF UNITED STATES NAVY

No. 17547.

417 F.2d 297 (1969)

Perley Louis WILSON, Appellant, v. The SECRETARY OF the UNITED STATES NAVY.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided October 23, 1969.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perley Louis Wilson, pro se.

Louis C. Bechtle, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., and Morton Hollander, Chief Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D. C., for appellee (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert M. Heier, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief).

Before STALEY, SEITZ and STAHL, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by petitioner from a grant of summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of the Navy in a mandamus action seeking to compel the Secretary to change the status of petitioner's discharge from "undesirable because of unfitness" to "honorable."

Petitioner is a former Steward in the United States Navy. On April 29, 1954, he was given the administrative discharge now under attack. Thereafter, he requested...

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