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· 8/10/1983

David L. Bowling v. The United States

Citations

  • 713 F.2d 1558
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 13648

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the Claims Court has limited jurisdiction to review a court-martial judgment if presented as “a collateral attack . . . on constitutional grounds”
  • asserting that “it is not the responsibility of a civil court to reweigh the factual evidence” utilized in court-martial determinations
  • claiming that “the nexus between Mr. Watson’s claims here and his court-martial is the simple fact that the court-martial adjudicated, by guilty plea, an allegation of misconduct that also led to his involuntary [discharge]”
  • court-martial proceeding reviewable only when there is such a deprivation of fundamental fairness as to impair due process
  • court-martial proceeding reviewable when there is such a deprivation of fundamental fairness as to impair due process
  • “Our own precedents hold that questions of fact resolved by military courts cannot be collaterally attacked.”

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Judges: Bennett, Smith, Nies

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