Bobby R. Gipson v. Veterans Administration and the United States

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we are called upon to review a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”) upholding the termination of the petitioner, Bobby R. Gipson, from his position in the Veterans Administration. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the MSPB proceedings were not proeedurally infirm, that the decision of the MSPB sustaining the charges against Gip-son was supported by substantial evidence, and that the MSPB correctly held that Gip-son’s discharge was not an excessive punishment or the product of improper motives. We therefore affirm…