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WATSON v. PERRY

No. C95-1141Z.

918 F.Supp. 1403 (1996)

Lieutenant Richard P. WATSON, Plaintiff, v. William J. PERRY, Secretary of Defense, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington.

March 7, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tarl R. Oliason, McKisson & Sargent, Seattle, WA, Paul S. Schmidtberger, Coudert Brothers, San Francisco CA, Christopher J. Bakes, Bakes & Chapman, San Francisco CA, Amy A. Fraenkel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & McRae, San Francisco CA, for Plaintiff.

Mark T. Quinlivan, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Washington DC, for Defendants.

ORDER

ZILLY, District Judge.

After fourteen years of exemplary military service, Lieutenant Richard P. Watson submitted a statement to his commanding officer declaring that he had a "homosexual orientation," and stating that he would not "rebut the [statutory] presumption" that service-members who state they are homosexuals engage in or have a propensity to engage in homosexual conduct. Pursuant to the Department...

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