Legal Opinion
Janice R. Lachance, Director, Office of Personnel Management v. Merit Systems Protection Board
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 24, 1998No. 97-3450PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
This ease arose after the Department of the Treasury demoted an employee based on two charges of misconduct. On the employee’s appeal, the Merit Systems Protection Board construed one of the two charges as requiring the agency to prove that the employee intended to impede its investigation and held that the agency failed to prove the charge as so construed. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) petitioned for review by this court, arguing that the Board had improperly construed the charge. We agree with OPM that the Board erred when it required the agency to prove…
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