Court Opinion

ID: 9632291
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:08:44.410448+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:01.610975
License: Public Domain

MILES W. LORD,
District Judge (concurring) :
I concur in the results reached by the majority, but I do so with great misgivings which are based upon my disagreement with the application of the legal principles stated in their opinion.
*255In other circumstances the right to public employment has been held to be a fundamental right and discrimination in public hiring would under those circumstances be subject to the test of whether or not there is a compelling state interest.
Likewise, the question of whether or not the state, as contrasted to the federal government, has any part in the raising or compensating of an army is subject to considerable doubt.
I feel, however, that as a matter of practicality the plight of the returning veteran is such that he should be rewarded in this manner, even at the expense of discriminating against others.
To arrive at this result one must deviate from the general principles of law applied in other situations, I have therefore concluded that I shall join with the result reached in the majority opinion.