Legal Opinion
Dwayne T. Mings v. Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 5, 1987No. Appeal 86-1277PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner challenges a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) sustaining his removal from the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice (agency), on the grounds that the petitioner (1) used insulting and abusive language concerning agency employees and others in a letter to an agency official, and (2) made an implied threat to change his testimony in a suit against the agency unless the agency hired his son, 30 M.S.P.R. 424. We affirm.
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The petitioner was employed as a border patrol agent in Lubbock, Texas. Effective May…
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