McCann v. United States Civil Service Commission

292 F.2d 267

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Decided: July 18, 1961
• Docket: No. 424, Docket 26902
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

We have denied plaintiff-appellant’s peremptory “Motion for Declaratory Judgment,” and now, on request and agreement of the parties, consider his appeal on the merits on the written memoranda submitted to that end. Plaintiff shows us no statute or contract requiring the defendants to transfer him to the Airways Modernization Board along with the project on which he was working. The decision not to transfer was a discretionary executive act not reviewable by the judiciary. See § 4 of the Airways Modernization Act, 71 Stat. 349, 351, 49 U.S.C. § 1211, since repealed. Thus, even if we assume that the district court had jurisdiction of the action and that venue was proper, the complaint failed to state any legal claim for relief, and dismissal of the action was necessary in any event.

Judgment affirmed.