Kenneth G. Smith v. John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C., and the United States Department of the Navy

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• finding that court properly rejected plaintiff’s attempts to base jurisdiction on the Declaratory Judgment Act because this statute does not confer jurisdiction
• “This difficult sovereign immunity question need not be decided, however, because Smith’s constitutional claims cannot succeed on the merits.”

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