Doris G. Cheguina v. Merit Systems Protection Board

FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The petitioner Doris G. Cheguina challenges the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) dismissing as untimely her appeal from her removal by the Department of the Navy. The questions are (1) whether the Board’s administrative judge properly dismissed her appeal when she failed to respond to the judge’s order to show that her appeal was timely or that good cause existed for the delay in filing; and (2) whether the Board abused its discretion in refusing to permit her to supplement the record on the administrative appeal to include documents…