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SZYKA v. U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

No. 123, Docket 75-6003.

525 F.2d 62 (1975)

John C. SZYKA, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Szyka, pro se.

Henry S. Cohn, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Peter C. Dorsey, U. S. Atty., for the District of Connecticut, on the brief), for appellee.

Before WATERMAN, OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant, a Marine combat veteran, filed a pro se complaint1 on September 10, 1974, against the United States Secretary of Defense, seeking $6.8 million damages for an incident taking place on the night of September 18, 1971, almost three years before his suit was filed. The incident allegedly involved a shelling close to plaintiff and his family in their boat in Long Island Sound from some military installation "in furtherance...

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