Blevins v. Plummer

613 F.2d 767 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. BLEVINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The Honorable James W. PLUMMER, Acting Secretary of the Air Force; Colonel Paul L. Green, Commander, Norton Air Force Base, California, Defendants-Appellees. No. CV. 77-2163. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 6, 1979. Decided Feb. 14, 1980. Richard P. Fox, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. Steven D. Petersen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before GOODWIN, HUG and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: 1 Thomas Blevins, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, was disappointed when he was not selected for promotion to colonel. After exhausting his administrative remedies, he sued the Secretary of the Air Force. He appeals an adverse judgment on the district court pleadings. 1 2 Blevins believes he was not promoted because of the inaccuracy or incompleteness of his personnel file. His administrative requests that the file be amended, either by the insertion of a "letter of mitigation" 2 or by changing an Officer Effectiveness Report in the file in accord…