Legal Opinion
Christian Facer v. Department of the Air Force
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 6, 1988No. 87-3382PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this case we confront a petition by Christian Facer, a former aircraft mechanic once employed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) in 33 M.S.P.R. 243 (1987) upheld an agency decision removing Facer for smoking marijuana on the base, and *536thereby modified a tentative decision by its administrative judge (AJ) which would have sustained the charges but mitigated the penalty to a 30-day suspension plus demotion, thus requiring reinstatement at a lower grade, with back pay. This tentative decision did not question the commission of…
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