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· 3/14/1996

Rex BARBER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheila WIDNALL, Secretary of the Air Force, Defendant-Appellee

Citations

  • 78 F.3d 1419
  • 1996 WL 109740

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding a decision of the Secretary of the Air Force not to correct a military record reviewable where the govern- ing statute allowed the Secretary to make a correction “when the Secretary considers it necessary to correct an error or remove an injustice”
  • holding a decision of the Secretary of the Air Force not to correct a military record reviewable where the govern- ing statute allowed the Secretary to make a correction “when the Secretary considers it necessary to correct an error or remove an injustice”
  • court “may consider . . . justiciability at any time” as “a prudential aspect of the [constitutional] ‘case and controversy’ prerequisite” for exercise of subject matter jurisdiction
  • appellate court “may consider the issue of justiciability at any time because it is a prudential aspect of the [constitutional] 19 ‘case and controversy’ prerequisite for [exercise of] federal court jurisdiction”

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Judges: Hug, Canby, Reinhardt

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