Hunt v. United States

Type

Opinion of the Court

Per curiam

Yes — no individual author

Filed

April 9, 2003

Case

Hunt v. United States

Case status

Decided

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PER CURIAM. After Staff Sergeant Sheldon Lamar Hunt (“Sgt. Hunt”) submitted a signed Request for Disposition Prior to Graduation, indicating his voluntary resignation from the Army’s Officer Candidate School (“OCS”), he brought this action in the Court of Federal Claims seeking back pay for six years active duty in the grade of captain and accompanying benefits; promotion to captain; six years active duty credit; expungement of all negative evaluations while at OCS; and travel pay from Newark, New Jersey, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for six years. Hunt v. United States, 52 Fed. Cl. 810 (2002). The Court of Federal Claims granted the government’s motion for summary judgment for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, and Sgt. Hunt timely appealed. Because Sgt. Hunt failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, we affirm the decision of the Court of Federal Claims in favor of the government. DISCUSSION The primary problem with Sgt. Hunt’s case is that he fails to establish that he has a substantive right to recover money damages from the United States, a prerequisite for obtaining relief under the Tucker Act. United States v. Testan, 424 U.S. 392 , 96 …

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