NATIONAL TREASURY EMP. UNION v. REAGAN

Nos. 81-1294 to 81-1298.

663 F.2d 239 (1981)

NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION, an unincorporated association, et al., Appellants, v. Ronald W. REAGAN, individually and in his capacity as President of the United States, et al. Elaine M. BOUTILIER, Appellant, v. Ronald W. REAGAN, individually and in his capacity as President of the United States, et al. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, et al., Appellants, v. Ronald W. REAGAN, individually and in his capacity as President of the United States, et al. Marc R. WINE, et al., Appellants, v. Ronald W. REAGAN, President of the United States, et al. Melody A. TROTT, on behalf of herself and others similarly situated, et al., Appellants, v. Ronald W. REAGAN, individually and in his capacity as President of the United States, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Tobias, Washington, D. C. (John F. Bufe, Sharyn Danch and William F. White, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants National Treasury Emp. Union.

Joseph B. Scott, Washington, D. C. (Irving Kator, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants Marc Wine and Richard Peppin et al.

Michael J. Grealy, Raymond J. Malloy, Washington, D. C., for appellants National Ass'n of Government Emp. et al.

Philip Sturman, Baltimore, Md., for appellants-intervenors Diana M. Boyd, et al.

Philip L. Chabot, Jr., and Carol MacKinnon, Washington, D. C., for appellants Melody Trott et al.

Alfred R. Mollin, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Thomas S. Martin, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and William Kanter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

David C. Vladeck and Alan Morrison, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for amicus curiae Public Citizen.

Before ROBINSON, Chief Judge, and TAMM and MIKVA, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

In these cases, we are called upon to determine the legality of the federal hiring freeze ordered by President Reagan on January 20, 1981, as it applies to those persons who had been notified between November 5, 1980, and January 20, 1981, that they had been unconditionally selected for federal jobs and who had not begun work on or by January 20, 1981. Plaintiffs raise a number

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