# Petition for Writ of Certiorari — Bostic v. Ohio

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## Record

- **Collection:** Supreme Court brief
- **Document type:** Petition for Writ of Certiorari
- **Published:** January 1, 1963
- **Citation:** 373 U.S. 932

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Supreme Court of the United States

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Geasins Term, 1962, .

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FRANK E. LIPP and BETTY FRIEDMAN, Executrix ,
of the Estate of Josepn Friepman, Deceased,

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Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States
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UI Bice ree et roche ins, Deeb deaat os aac 92
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NPA TIO on ncs ccs caso oonsnctene ene snease sSicatedatmae caer’ 2
Jurisdictional Statement. '
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Kirtley wv. United States? C. Cis. No. 98-55 0006

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Knight ve. United States, C. Cis.c No. 64-60, le- .

cided January 18, 19617 ..02..\ oe... 6, 8, 21

Levadi v. United ee, aay, ' Cls. No. 260-60) ty ee Se
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Lipp v. United States s, 301 F.-2d. 684 22... ER AAR . 222
* MacFarlane v. United States, 134 C. Cls. 755. 16
~ Marshall vw. The Baltimore and Ohio. failroad ('o..,

16 How. 314, RR St Ree aaa csaantipbechgtqinnsseZtnten’ ‘S.
Odell v. ae te 134 Cte Gee: ih
Patterson v. United “ates, 141 0°. C's. 435 ._6,7,16, 18
Proper e. United States, IO CecCts. 511 : 6, 7. 16-18
Robinson v. United States, C. Cls. No. 433-59 2 s
Rosnick v. United States, 132 €. Cis. 1 SO Tah a3 A, i)

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_ San WNlan v. United States, 139 C, Cle 485. 6,16, 17, 1S

Soukaras uv. United States, 135 C. Cl. 88. Sea an 16

Suter vv. United States, 1W39.C. Cls. 466 00. 6, 16-18, 20

Uhlen +. United States, 128 C. Cls. GOS 6, 14, 16, 17, 18

Wales rt ited States, 132 C. CY, THD : bi, 1
Walters vr. United States. C. Cls. aoe ee S
cindy r. United States, 148 ©. Cls, 445 re
Woodard v. United States, CCls, No. 190-60 .
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STATUTES “

Administrative Proce@ure Act. 60 Stat. 245, 0
fe RE Renee encuemcaeen area,

Rules 23(5), Revised Rules of Supreme Court of
the United Stafes, 28 U. S. C. followin

69680... eek PC ete bese 2
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, 60 Stat.’
ee et ed Oe as 9,11, 19
28 U; S.C. §1DB5 (1) onan ecceeccseccideeeneeeeees fen Sep SENT aie
28 U. S. C. §2501 ............ eR Vee
Act of October 25, 1951, 65 Stat. 699. 10 Us , : |
SE Cae eee irtew 3, 10, 12, 5 19, 20
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27 Comp. Gen. 709 (1948) ee at ome i 42
Washington Post, April 17, 1962, p. A16- EE
“World Almanac, 1963 0... Jeet events oe 9 10

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H. R. 1181, House of Representatives, Committee

~ con Armed Services, May 15, 1951 [No. 21] ib |
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Senate Report No? 788, p. 1, S2nd Congress,

Session ..%....... Reet faltee Bee ret aT aee ee ae
Bovep of tig STRODE NG se No. 449, S2nd
Congress, Ist Session™: Tan ene me er ae
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Frank FE. Lipp, and Berry | Executrix of the
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Your petitioners, Frank E’ Lipp and Betty Friedman,
pray that a writ of certiorari issue to review the jude
ements of the Pnited States Court of Claims, Washington,
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D.-€.. in the. above-entitled aetions.

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> Opinions Below

The opinions ef the Court below (Appendices A and B,
infra, A1, A51) are reported, respectively, Lipp v. United

_ States, at 30] F. 2d 684 (1962), and Friedman v. United

States, at 310 F. 2d 381 (1962).
Jurisdiction —,.

The opinion of the court below dismissing the petition
in Lipp v. United States, supra, was entered April ‘4, 1962
(A1); the order of thd burt overruling plaintiff's mo-
tion for rehearing was entered on November 7, 1962
(A 50); and the order of the court: overruling . plaintiff's
motion for reconsideration ‘was entered on, January 11,
1963 (A950). In. Friedman rv. United States, supra,
the opinion of the court ee ae the petition
was entered on November 7, 1962 (A951), and the order of
the court overruling nlaintift’ motion for — Was
entered. on January 11, 1963 (Appendix B, infra, A 92).
Under tie practice of the United States’ Court of tain,
there is no formal judgment ade litional to an opinion dis-
missing a petition. The jurisdiction of this Court to re-
view: decisions of the Court of Claims is invoked under
28. U. S.C. §1255(1). The review of these CASES OD CRY
-tiorari to the United States Court’of Claims is sought in

° a single petition pursuant to Rule’ 23(5), Revised Rules
. of the Supreme Court ‘of the Tnited States, 28 UL So.

following 42680.

Question Presented
Whether an action in the United States Court of Claims
begun well within the six years following an allegedly
arbitrary, caprigious and unlawful denial of a claim timely”
made to % ite for the Correetion of Military Records,

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established in a service department Miystaiit to at uA
of Congress, WU. S.C. $1552 0495), and over which
claim the said Correction Board has ckercised jnvisdi
tion, is barred by limitations, 28 FL S.C. 2501 (AS),
simply Because more than six years bate elapsed between
the initial occurrence of the events with which the elais
is concerned and the’ commencement of the onit in th
Court. of Claims.

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Statutes Involved
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The statutes imvolved, 5 UL S.-€. 1009, To ES.
s1oo2 and 28 U.S.C. $2501, are set forth in Appendix ©,
jufra (N 94). or .

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doth. petitioner Lipp and Josept Mriedman, decoasecd
husband of petitioner Betty) Ayiedman, were non Reena:
medical officers of the Army 2ghe United) State. who
served on extended: active duty with thee \rmy dare:
World War Hl. Both were in good health® when they
entered upon ‘such duty. Both incurred disabiing physi
al defects while serving, and incident to their extend

active service, Both were relieved from active: duty. ne!

for physical disability. and neither of them: has received
any retirement: pay oy benefits as proyided by law fey
service members who be®ome incapagitated for aetive diity

in line-of duty, and incident to theif active duty,

Joseph Friedman, prior to his relief from: active duty.
met a number of medical boards and retiring boards, all
of which found him untit: for weber al se vig and ore of
which recommended , his retirement. The jst votirine
board, however, found him “not permanently incapacitated
for active duty at’ l that! time” and rocommended his Ve

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examination and revaluation after six months (451). For
reasons which eannot now he established, this was not done
(A 52). 2 ; ;

In Lipp’s case, the petitioner suffered from multiple
sclerosis, an incurable disease of the nervous system which
is characterizes] by periods of exacerbation and remission,
He exhibited symptoms while.on active’ duty whieh, in
retrospec*, Were attributable to muitiple sclerosis but at
the time were not correctly diagnosed, His tronble wa-
not definitely identified until some two years after his
relief from duty (A 15,25). When his: infirmit® Was dis-
covered, he requested, but wasyrefused, permission to aj,
pear before an Army Retiri fx* Boards to determine his
entitlement fo retired pay (A 18. ak ;

Applications were nile on behalf f both men, Lipp
by himself and Joseph, Pigedman ly his widow and exee v
trix, “Betty Priedman, io the Army Board for Correction
of Military Records asking for correction of” their re
spective records to. reflect: their retirement for’ physical
disability and consequent entitlement to retirement pay

and benefits. The Board denied both applications. Fach
petitioner thereupon filed suit in the United States"Cour:
of Claims claiming the retirement? pay whigh they had
heen denied, alleging that such denial, on the part of the
Atorrection Board, was arbitrary, capricious and nnlaytnal.
Kaich suit was filed @ithin Six vears after the aitteei serhi
trary and capricions action on the part of the: Correction
Board, pursuant to the statute limiting actions in the
Court of ¢ ‘laims to those filed within six vears after the
claim has acerued, 28 U.S.C. 62501. The court below
hoPever, held that hoth were time-barred, petitioner Fried-
tnan’s having acerued in 1946 or 1947 (A. S8), and petitioner
Lipp’s upon the refusal of the Department of the paged
to grantshim an appearance hefore a Retiring Board i
1950 (XN 5). Both petitions in the comt helow were thére.

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_fore dismissed orm the ground that the aleged arbitrary,
capricious and unlawful actions on the part of the Any
Board for Correction of Military Records did iiet give
rise to a cause Of action cognizable by the Court of Claims
and that any cause’ of action petitioners §night have was
barred by limitations (A 5753). . s

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Reasons for Granting the Writ
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1. The decisions of the court. helow. holding the peti
tioners’ claims to be barred by limitations, are not’ only
in direct conflict with a doctrine long established by. this
Court, but with a multitude of 4t +

In Eicks rv. United States, supra. at p. 926, Mr. Justice
Reed (Ret.), sitting by designatior@ in holding that the
action was not baryed by limitations, sdid, “This suit seeks
recovery of salary for periods more than ‘six years prior
to its institution” but the right: to recover is not. set up
as a salary debt but arises, it is claimed. from the arbi-
trary and capricious action of the Secretary of the Navy
in refusing correction of plaintiff's record.” In Knight
v. United States, C. Cls. No. 64-60, January 18, 1961,
Madden, J... speaking Yor the unanimous court, denied:

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the government's motion to digmiss the petition as bgrtred
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by limitations, by reference to the court's earlier décision
in a similar case in these terms:

t Tn Furlong e, luited States, iss Crt. Cl. S45, S45,
the court cited seven cases and then said;

The principle of these @ases is first, jJurisdic-
fet is canferred by Congress, not’ on this court,
hutoon retiring boards and the Pecretaries of the
three armed services, to decide ‘an officer's right
to retirement for physical disability, and his con

Jsequent right) to retires pay; second, it follows
therefrom that we cannot acquire jurisdiction of
such ‘a claim un@il after the Board and the Sec
retary have acta. or failed or refused to act. and
not then unless the board and the Secretary acted
arbitrarily or capriciously or contrary to law:

- third, sinee our jurisdiction could not B® invoked

2] until after the retiring board and the Secretary
had acted, the statute of limitations on a suit: in
this court did not ‘begin to run until they had

‘ aed, tourth, on a finding of arbitrary or other.
wise unlawful action by the retiring board and
Secretary, it is our duty to act in the place of the

wiring hoard and? on a finding of disability. at
the time f discharge, tothold an officer is entitled
-to retired pay from: the date of his discharge.
Since the deeRion of Furlong, the case of Proper
vt. Uneted States. 139 Ct: Cl. 51: Friedman rv.
United States, 141 Ct. Ci. 289: Patterson. Unitey
States, 141.0%. Cl. doo >and Allin v. Casited Stake 5
No. 004.95, decided November 4, 1959, havet heen
decided by this court. They all are in aceord with
What was said in Perlova, supra.”
Cleariy, petitioners submit, the decisions of the court
below of which certiorari is sought herein are in conflict
with the whole bodysof law heretofore established. not
only by the decisions of this, court, but by those of the
-court below. In fhese premises, petitioners respectfully
submit that this court should resolve the conflict.
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. The decis ions forswhich packs usutd is Hitste. inal if ree

. jist aria. to thie plaintiffs - thea of (aims whi
have filed their petitions and, in pomne instances, assumed
the expensive burden of teial in relianceauh the series ‘of 4
contrary holdings, by that court. As this eaurt said ovey
a century ago, there are no cases where an adhe rence to
the - maxim’ of stare a ix so absolutery es: on al to the
peace of .s0c iety is \Lhose . whic A afte vet retroae tive! thie
jurisdiction of conits ag a The RBaltime San
at Ohio Railrs oad ('v., 16 rOW, 4c 320 ( BSary, Petitions
~ submit that to deny he varihg of thetr efises to these |
gants below on the grounds of a suddenly raised bar of
limitations. which did not éxist before and ‘is unjustified At
new, is equally tireenscionable,————___. Yet

At least 25 plaintiff's who are, iv respect of limitations? —
: ‘situated -simgglarly to _ titioners herelu-here het wetlons
in the cour . “To go aground on the new barrier
reef erectéd by the Pa ‘isions below ino these petitioners’ x
eases.” Six of them have already borne the costs of trial ‘
a Court. Watters tint
States, C. Cls. No. 315-59; Robmson r. Lnited States: 4
Cls. No. 435-59; "Heller ve United States, C. Cls. No.
15-60; Levadi v. United States, \. Cis, No. 260-60. Wood-
‘8ard v. United Sigtés, C. Cls. No. 190-60; Knight v. United
States, C..Cls. No. 64,60.

Petitioners submit thaf this Ts an intolerable injury to
be inflicted .on litigants whose only lapse hes be®n that
they relied on the law as the cou®t below had heretofore
clearly and gmphatically stated it to be.

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has informally indicated that ali of the cases listed in Appendix |) -
are-presently suspended, until 30 days “after final action on the instant
petition. Many other, such cages, petitioners are advised and believe,
ie he i formally or formally, before various Commissioners
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than 16,000,000 of our citizens served in our last major
War, between 1941 and 1946. Prior to 1946. corrections
in military and naval records could Ve made only wher
authorized by a jprivate bill enacted by Congress.) tu
order to obviate ‘the consice ration of a substantial number
of such bills subsequent to World War Hl, Section 207 of.
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. Siz,
S37) provided for the correction of military and naval!
records by board= of civilian officers or emiplovees of thie

respective service departments. By 1951, stich boards

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The effort on Congress’ part was well-intentioned but
did not prove very. fruitful. Shortly after the Board-
were established the Comptroller General rendered at
épiniow to the effect that “neither Section 207 nor othe?
legislation vests in the hedds of the specified, department-
or in this Office-any authority to * °°
funds to pay any-ciaim for money, based on corre tian

made in the military or naval records of an. individual

nunc appropriated

under the authority of that section.” Congress thereupon

proceeded; in 1951, to amend the Act to provide the needed
autbority."” During the hearings on the proposeds amend.

“ ment, it was brought clear!y and unmistakably to the at-

tention of the subcommittee of the House of, Representa-

_ tives that certain agencies of the government, the Genera!

Accounting Office as well as the service departments.
would have preferred that the act, as amended, should
specifically preclude review of Correction Board dec:
sions by the .courts. The committee’ rejection of the
suggestion was emphatic. dhe following is atypical
passage :"

“Mr. Deyle: I never like to see the right of the
court to review any board abrogated. whatever the
board is.

Mr. Baier [representing the Department of De-
fense|: I think that provision is to prevent a lot of
these little cases from going to court and wasting
the court’s time where the Department has the rec-
ord and they try to dssemble the data. °

Mr. Clemente: Unfortunately the word was ‘wast-
ing a court’s time.” | don’t think it ix properly put
because the courts are there for that specific reason.

Mr. Baier: I will take that back. It will save

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i Act of October 25, 1951, 65 Stat. 655, 10 U.S.C. $1552.

‘© Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on
Armed Services on H.R. 1181, 82d Cong., ist Session, pp. 376, 392.

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Mr. Doyle: IT may observe from a quarter of ¢
century, of a law practice before the court that fread.
is pretty diffe te-prove atid seten-you say, except
when procured: by means of fraud, you are” prac-
ticaliy eliminating an applicant making a meritori-
otis ‘showing’ before a Federal court. If there is
going to fe any wording, I certainly favor the in-
clusion of ‘mistake’ on a broader ground, so that at
all times the applicants have the right, if they have
the money, to go fore a court and protect their
rights. ; °

And the fact that vou have reconsidered case-
where there has been supplementary, evidence in
itself shows that there might well) be many cases
. which might well go before the courts.”

If its ee the full Coyunfitter ou Armed Services
merely stated :

“On page 3, lines 11 and 12, the committee has
deleted the words ‘including a review by the courts
te of the U nitedg States ~ since it is of Phe opinion that

the courts of the United States.should not be pre-
cluded from review?tg such cases under appropriate
circumstances.” ;

It would scarcely seem necessary to belabor this point
to such an extent since the court below, in jt comprehen-
sive and thoroughly well-reasoned nei in Friedman
e. United States, 14mC. Cle. 289, 259 41958), seemed to
have setfled the question, if atv existed, as to the intent”
et Congres~ in these Terms: ;
e "We conclude that Congres- had no intention, in

enacting the correction board legislation, of with-
holding from this court jurisdiction to render a
mogey judgment for pay of which a claimant. is
deprived by reason of the arbitrary or illegal action
of a correction board *°* *"

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Notwithstanding, the court, below, in ap appendix at-
iached to itfrom service not for physical disability. 7AIF were suits for
ealisability retirement, pay. The court’ pronouncements
on the matter of? limitations were these:

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Our decision is that the plaintiff, when he
Was released from, the Army in 1946, had a total
and permanent service-connected disability, Lf the
Physical Evaluatio® Board in 1951, or the Board
for the Correction of Military. Records in 1954 thad
so decided, and the decision had been * officially
approved, the plaintiff would have received his
retired pay from the date of his release in 1946.
Since his eanse of tion is based upon the failure
of the first of those tribunals to decide his case
at all, or upon the failure of the second to degide
the case upon the evidence, we must decide the
ease as we think thee should have decided it, and
With like effect.” :

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it has long been held that. this court: has
- jurisdiction to render judgment for the pay which
was denied the claimant by the arbitrary or eapri-

cious actions of the adininistrative agency of the

Government. Dismuke v. Uuited States, 297 U.S.
167; Uhley ve United” States, 137 ©. Cls. 275;
Gordon «. United “States, 129 Cr Cis. 270; Suter
vr. Conited States, decided this day, ante, p. 466."
Proper tholding) :

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ease of John @ Furlong v. United States, 138 ©.
(ls. 843, this court acquired jurisdiction of a,elaim
for disability retired pay

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‘Accordingly, we hold that plaintiff” s clain® based
on the-alleged arlitrary action of the Secretary

of the Army is not barred by the statute of’

jimitations.” _

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“In a number of recent decisions by this court
it has been held that a cause of action for disability
retired pay accrues, when the Secretary or a Cor-

rection Board arbitrarily, caprieously and con-

trary to law denies such application. Furlong v.
Unified States, 138 C. Cls. 843;,.San Millan v. United
States, 139 C. Cls. 485; Proper v, United States,

139 C. Cls. o11. This event in plaintiff's case took’

place in 1954.- We are of the opinion that whether
plaintiff's cause of action accrued in 1952) when
the Air Foreée’ erroneously failed to retire him
according to the findings and geo oer age of
the Physical Evaluation Board, in 1954 when
the (Correction Board denied Sie ‘abn ition, his
claim is not barred Wy the statute of limitations. Fi

Patterson (holding) :

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“With respect to the defendant's eontentior “that
the plaintiff's claim is barred by the six-year Stat-
ute of limitations, this court has held that where
a plaintiff has received no determination of his
eligibility for disability . retirement pay by .any
board until the correction board has acted, ‘his
cause of action accrues not at the time of his‘separa-
tion from the service, but at the time of the al-
, leged wrongful action “of the correction. board, ay)-
: proved. by .the Secretary, in wrongfully - refusing
tor correct the records and grant the plaintiff dis-

v ability retirement with pay. Uhlew v. United
States, 128 C. Cls. 608: Furlong v. Uniteds States,
138 C. Cls. 843: Proper v. Uhited States, TRY C.
_ 511; Friedman v. United States, supra; Suter

United States, supra, Accordingly, we conclude
that the claim stated herein is not barred by the
statute of limitations.”

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Finally, in Kicks ¢. United States, 140 C. Cls. a22 (1959),
through Mr. Justice ‘Reed, sitting by designation, the
court stated the doctrine filly and, it Was thourht, once
and for all. Gludge ‘Laramore dissented for other rea-
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1946, based Apon an allegation of” arbitrary and) capri-
cious action by a Correction Board i 1956, ten years
later. In Frederick v. United States, ©. Cls. No. 111-56,

decided July 15, tines the Court adhered to the estag-

lished doctrine, although recovery was limited. to pay
due for the peryod of six years prior to the filing of the
petition, Judges Whitaker and Larfimore Flissented
Judge Whitaker, hawever, stated’ that “In all of these
cases, the question for our determination is whether or
not the actfux of the Seeretars is arbitrary or capricions
or not suppotted by” substantial evidenee.” ;

Finally t) urt below came to Auight ve. United States,

. Cls. NoS 64-60, which has been discussed to some ex-
tent above.’ In this case, the unanimous court would
appear to have stated its position in the clearest, most
ainequivocal and definitive terms at its command: 4 _

“The Governnignt’s motion is based entirely upon
the statute of limitations. It raises no other issue.
The contention is that the piaingiffs cause of action.
if he has one, accrued at The time of his release

from active duty in TAT: that “that ocenurred more =

than six vears before@he filed his petition in this
court, erge, the elaim is barred by limitation.

This comtention assumes that Congress, in enact-
ing in W446 and aamending in 1951 the statute
authorizing the establiszhment of boards for the
correction of military reeords, intended to create
no leval rights but merely to lodve an arbitrary

nneontrolled power in the Secretaries to correct
records or refnse to correct records iis they hisipy-
pened to feel like doing. th

The assumption is net sound. That kind of raw
nower tmeontroll@l by law conld only be conferred
he the most express and emohatie language. We
have repeatedt: held that the Seeretaries and their
honres for the correction of records must base
their: decisio@® unon substantial evidence, and are
not privileged. to make arbitrary and capricious
deeisjans.”

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Notwithstanding,’ the court below has iow abandoned
that position for no apparent reason.» demonstrated
above, the attempt by the court in petitioner Friedman's
case to rationalize ite @hift does not accord with either

the facts or the law. Nn Lipp. supra, the court's holding
is that resort to the Correction Boards 1s merely per-
missive and such resort does pot tol! the limiting statute,
something which was neve in issue. The opinion in
Friedman, supra, is squavely to the coutrary, holding,
apparently, that resort to some board will activate the’
statute, whether a Correction Board or a Retiring Board.

To perplex the situation beyond tepair, the court below,
on the same day, allowed recovery in Harper v. United
States, ©. Cls. No. 206-59, decided* November 7, 1962,
although 15 years had elapsed between the beginning of
the period for which he was granted: retirement pay
and the institution of his suit, aye only intervening board
having been the Correction Board which had denied_his
application a year before the filing of his -petition.**

Petitioners submit thai, amidst such confusion, all that
can he fairly said i is that the real issue upen which this
petition turns is simpix whether or not the members of
the Armed Forces have the right, upon an arbitrary and
capricious action by a Correction Bogrd, to the judicial
review of such an action that Congress iitended to pr.
vide, and which is in accord with the doctrine long estab-
lished, by this court and followed, hitherto, by a multitudg
of cases in the same court to which certiorari is sought.

Petitioners submit that they, in company with the mil-
lions of other men and women in uniform, have the right
to such review by gue process of law. Military forces
depend upon morale Sy as much as upon equipment and
“training. Nothing can Be more destructive of that morale,
and more foreign to our concept of justice, than the
cee of this fundamental right.

23 See, alsu, the 2pparent holding in Friedman, supra, that resort
to the Correction Board is mandator) in some instances. A 68. ;

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or the forecoin’ reasons, this petition for certiorari
to the United States Court of Claims should be granted.
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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/brief%3Amicro_IA40385601_0948%3A2. Public record. Not legal advice.
