HICKS

v.

HARDIN, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

Citator

Cited By

• Vaughn v. Rosen, 523 F.2d 1136 (D.C. Cir. 1975)
  …ing with the public are not “internal personnel practices” and involve very different considerations. Two cases have dealt with the exempt-ability of specific aspects of personnel policy. Hicks v. Freeman, 397 F. 2d 193 (4th Cir. 1968) cert. denied 393 U.S. 1064, 89 S.Ct. 717, 21 L.Ed.2d 707 (1969) relies on the language of (b)(2) and on 44 U.S.C. § 305(a) in connection with the Civil Service Commission’s and Depart [*1153] ment of Agriculture’s reduction in force regulations. However that case did not requ…
• Wayne-Gossard Corp. v. Moretz Hosiery Mills, Inc., 539 F.2d 986 (4th Cir. 1976)
  …Claim 3 in the original patent for a foot cover. Claim 3 was held for naught by this court in 1968 for overelaiming and indefiniteness, 35 U.S.C. § 112. Wayne Knitting Mills v. Russell Hosiery Mills, Inc., 400 F. 2d 964, (4 Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1064, 89 S.Ct. 717, 21 L.Ed.2d 707 (1968). On September 23, 1969 the reissue was obtained by the original patentee and Wayne-Gossard together; at the same time Claim 3 was surrendered. 35 U.S.C. § 251. Trimmed of its overbreadth, the old Claim 3 became C…
• Lundy v. Isthmian Lines, Inc., 423 F.2d 913 (4th Cir. 1970)
  …cCormack Lines, Inc., 382 F. 2d 961 (2d Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 1027, 88 S.Ct. 1416, 20 L.Ed.2d 284 (1968); Alexander v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 382 F. 2d 963 (2d Cir. 1967), cert. denied, International Terminal Operating Co. v. Alexander, 393 U.S. 1064, 89 S.Ct. 717, 21 L.Ed.2d 707 (1969); Mascuilli v. United States, 411 F. 2d 867 (3rd Cir. 1969); Venable v. A/S Det Forenede Dampskibsselskab, 399 F. 2d 347 (4th Cir. 1968). The Fifth and Ninth Circuits, however, reject this theory of “instant uns…