Legal Opinion
Laverne Chisholm v. Defense Logistics Agency and Merit Systems Protection Board
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 28, 1981No. 80-2501PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
This petition to review the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (hereafter Board) challenges the Board’s right to use an employee’s criminal conviction to collaterally estop him from denying that he committed those acts which led to his removal from government service. Although we conclude that the Board may use the doctrine of collateral estoppel, we find that its use on the present record was inappropriate and therefore remand to the Board for further proceedings.
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Petitioner, LaVerne Chisholm, was employed as a warehouse forklift…
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