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· 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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