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SALAZAR v. U.S. AIR FORCE

No. 87-1417.

849 F.2d 1542 (1988)

Dorothy SALAZAR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES AIR FORCE and Paul Thomas Byrne, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 26, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight Rabuse, Appellate Staff, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Helen M. Eversberg, U.S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Don Baker, Baker & Price, Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, GEE, and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

Apologia

Our result in this case is shocking.1 Shocking, that is, in the sense that the government is made to pay over annuity funds due a veteran for which it has no statutory liability. The compulsion comes from a Texas court judgment against the Air Force which became final for want of an appeal. What's worse, the Texas judgment intrinsically...

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