Julie L. Brehmer v. Federal Aviation Administration

FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The Federal Aviation Administration (“Administration”) removed an air traffic controller, the petitioner, Julie L. Brehmer (“Brehmer”), when for the third time within eighteen months she failed to maintain the minimum spatial separation between aircraft that she was tracking. The arbitrator who heard the grievance proceeding through which Brehmer challenged her removal upheld the Administration’s action. We affirm.

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Brehmer began working as a certified air traffic controller in. Denver in September 1997. She was responsible for “the safe, orderly, and efficient…