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MATTHEWS v. UNITED STATES

No. 86-1005.

810 F.2d 109 (1987)

Kerry J. MATTHEWS and Other Air Traffic Control Specialists, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Hart, Paul Blankenstein, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., William Kanter (Lead Counsel), E. Roy Hawkens, Al J. Daniel, Jr., argued, for defendants-appellees.

Steven Z. Cohen, Cohen and Ellias, Birmingham, Mich., Phillip S. Wood, Paskey and Wood, Aurora, Ill., Richard Johnson, argued, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before MARTIN, MILBURN and BOGGS, Circuit Judges.

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are former air traffic controllers who were discharged by the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"), after the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization ("PATCO"), strike in August 1981. The controllers in this action brought suit in federal district court on April 20, 1982, alleging that the FAA deprived them of one of their statutory appeal routes under the Civil Service Reform Act by sending out misleading notices upon...

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