David Noble, Jr. v. William Dunn, Jr.

Karen LeCraft Henderson, Circuit Judge:

For nearly twenty-five years David W. Noble, Jr. has pressed his claims against the now-former leadership of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC or Union). A decade ago one of our colleagues urged an end to "this 14-year litigation odyssey." Noble v. Sombrotto ( Sombrotto II ), 525 F.3d 1230 , 1242 (D.C. Cir. 2008) ( per curiam ) (Kavanaugh, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). But as in the original Odyssey , there was still a ten-year ordeal to endure-and Noble's arguments, like Penelope's tapestry, have tended to unravel.

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