competing employees
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 341 U.S. 277 - Elder v. Brannan · 1951Most cited · 105 citing opinions
The proviso, like the body of § 12, contains the term 'competing' employees, which necessarily implies that a veteran's preference operates only within a defined group.
How often courts cite the case defining “competing employees”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “competing employees” — 105 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.