Court Sides with Former Army Football Player and His Bid for Degree

A federal judge from the District of New Jersey has denied a motion for summary judgment brought by the U.S. Government, which sought to prevent a former cadet and student-athlete on the Army football team from receiving his degree, despite the favorable decision the plaintiff received from the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records (ABCMR).   In so ruling, the court wrote that a “trier of fact in this case could determine that the Secretary's deviation from the ABCMR's decisio