United States v. Hobbs

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a failure to correct an injustice clearly presented in the record is arbitrary and capricious
• finding that the Board “misse[d] the true intent of plaintiffs appeal” where it only addressed the specific request made and failed to fully correct the injustice clearly in the record before it
• finding that an Air Force cap tain was “erroneously discharged,” but refusing to grant plaintiff a promotion to the rank of major because “[cjourts are generally not in the promotion business”
• addressing the merits of the officer’s claim that his record was defective before ultimately reinstating him and awarding him back pay
• denying a request for a court-ordered promotion, observing that ”[c]ourts generally are not in the ‘promotion business' ”
• identifying-the Board’s duty to remove injustices when they are clearly evidenced in the record, even if not specifically requested by the applicant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).