Legal Opinion
Holton v. Dep't of the Navy
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 9, 2018No. 2017-1430PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dyk, Circuit Judge.
Scott Holton petitions for review of the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board ("Board") affirming his removal. Mr. Holton was employed as a rigger supervisor for the Navy at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He was dismissed after testing positive for a prohibited substance in a drug test administered in the aftermath *1144 of a crane accident. Because there was reasonable suspicion that Mr. Holton caused or contributed to the accident, the drug test was properly administered and did not violate Mr. Holton's constitutional rights or the standard of the applicable…
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