HOERNER v. U.S. VETERANS ADMIN.

Civ. No. S 87-2233.

675 F.Supp. 999 (1987)

Claude A. HOERNER, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., Lorie Leigh Pena, Anthony R. Decker, Robert K. Craddock, Jr., Plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. UNITED STATES VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, Thomas K. Turnage, Administrator of Veterans Affairs.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

December 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cherif Sedky, Karla J. Letsche, Jeffrey B. Maletta, David T. Case, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Barton F. Stichman, Julia A. Trotter, Vietnam Veterans of America Legal Services, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S.Atty., RoAnn Nichols, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., Richard E. Greenberg, Patrick Sorek, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


SMALKIN, District Judge.

This is an action filed by a number of veterans, and a veterans' group, contesting certain benefit reduction actions taken by the Veterans Administration, in implementation of the so-called Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, P.L. 99-177, 99 Stat. 1037. The Veterans Administration, like all federal executive and independent agencies, was faced with a 4.3 per cent reduction in programmatic funding (by sequestration), effective March 1, 1986. As one...

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