Legal Opinion
Whitmore v. Department of Labor
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 30, 2012No. 2011-3084PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REYNA, Circuit Judge.
Robert Whitmore (‘Whitmore”) appeals the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (“MSPB”), which declined to set aside Whitmore’s removal from his position with the Department of Labor (“DOL”). While the DOL alleged that "Whitmore’s removal was due to his increasingly disruptive and insubordinate behavior, Whitmore alleged that the removal was an unlawful retaliation for his lawful whistleblowing disclosures. In analyzing whether the DOL had proven by clear and convincing evidence that Whitmore would have been removed regardless of his whistleblowing disclosures,…
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