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HOWARD v. U.S. DEPT. OF DEFENSE

No. 03-1338.

354 F.3d 1358 (2004)

Byron HOWARD, Leon Adams, Jerry M. Agan, Sr., Jill M. Anglin, Jery W. Baker, David Bates, Jere Beery, Robert B. Bell, Gil Berg, Michael Bodnar, Philip Ray Booker, Harold D. Bragg, Connie J. Buckley, Louis Carmen, Warren Carter, John Chassereau, James T. Cook, Margi Crook, Jack Crowley, James Devereaux, Joe H. Faulk, Gerald P. Finan, Ray Gibson, D.T. Graviss, Michael Golightly, David Haire, Paul Hamaker, Johnny Hannah, Michael R. Hasse, O.R. Hatcher, Mary Hatfield, Richard Hurlocker, Jack Hollinsworth, Michael J. Honer, Charles Hoskinson, T.J. Huckelberry, Gerald E. Johnson, Jr., Mike James, Mitchell R. Johnson, Thomas Kummer, Wayne Langdon, David Learned, Richard Longo, John Lowery, Ray Lugo, Robert F. Macdonald, Mike Mcgrath, Morrison E. Mackay, John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Larry Marwedel, Edwin Mazzanti, William E. Meadows, Domingo Mendiguchia, Jr., Frank Montoya, Stephen Mungie, James A. Norman, Dennis L. Nunnally, Pernell Perry, Paul Pritchett, Dave W. Reeves, Charles D. Revie, Thomas Rigsbee, Tom Rigsby, William Robinson, Roger Rodems, James W. Sehrt, Jr., Jon Adlai Shipp, John Snodgrass, James L. Stephens, Thomas Wayne Treece, Larry Twardzak, Douglas Wagner, James A. Walker, Curtis Williams, Alfred Wolfe, Roger Youngblood, and John Zehmisch, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, and United States Congress, and its individual members in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

January 13, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Corlew, Watkins & Eager PLLC, of Jackson, Mississippi, for plaintiffs-appellants. Of counsel on the brief were Ronald J. Kormanik, Sydow, Kormanik, Carrigan & Eckerson, L.L.P., of Houston, Texas; and Philip Earl Jones, Campbell & Jones, of San Antonio, Texas.

Mark S. Davies, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General; and Mark B. Stern, Attorney. Of counsel was Katherine S. Dawson, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC.

Before CLEVENGER, BRYSON, and GAJARSA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This case presents a challenge to a federal statute prohibiting disabled military veterans from recovering both disability and military retirement pay. The statutory prohibition was challenged on the ground that the law violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, which had jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2) (the "Little Tucker Act"),...

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