· 1/24/1989
Larry E. Blassingame v. Secretary of the Navy, Naval Discharge Review Board, and Board for the Correction of Naval Records
Citations
- 866 F.2d 556
- 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 679
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- adopting a “plenary, careful and searching” review of a claim challenging non-compliance with a military regulation
- “It is axiomatic that an agency of the government must scrupulously observe its own rules, regulations, and procedures.”
- “But for the Corps’s initial improper induction and subsequent failure to investigate, Blassingame’s record might have been spared the blemish of an ‘undesirable’ discharge.”
- vacating NDRB and BCNR determinations for regulatory infraction
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Judges: Kaufman, Oakes, Cardamone
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