Legal Opinion
Charles Patrick Meehan v. United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 6, 1983No. Appeal 83-690PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
Charles Patrick Meehan was removed from his position as a Distribution Clerk with the U.S. Postal Service (the agency) for threatening to do bodily harm to two senior Post Office officials. Meehan attacks the merits of the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (board) upholding his removal and asserts that the penalty is “unconscionably disproportionate” to the offense. The agency has moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the case involves charges of racial discrimination and, therefore, the appeal is not within the jurisdiction of this court under 5…
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