Court Opinion

ID: 9449863
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:25:55.093299+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:01.778157
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DANAHER, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
Bond was a construction supervisor employed by the Army Corps of Engineers. He was separated from the service as of September 21,1959 after repeated and prolonged absences at the peak of the construction season. Even after he had been warned to report by a given date, he simply wrote on July 1, 1959, that he must travel from Virginia to *903California and then would require an indefinite time within which to locate a place to live. It would seem entirely reasonable for his superiors to conclude that he had put his own interests ahead of those of the service.
Thereafter, when he appealed from the separation order, he was accorded complete administrative reveiw.
This court should affirm the District Court’s order which granted the Government’s motion for summary judgment.1

. Judge McLaughlin’s memorandum opinion properly points out that apart from all other considerations, it would seem that this claim comes within United States ex rel. Arant, v. Lane, 249 U.S. 367, 372, 39 S.Ct. 293, 63 L.Ed. 650 (1919), because of appellant’s delay of 18 months in bringing his action in the District Court.