Bobby H. Mitchum v. Tennessee Valley Authority

RICH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (board), 20 M.S.P.R. 117, sustaining the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) action removing petitioner from his position as a Heavy Equipment Operator. The final order of the full board modified the presiding official’s decision of May 21, 1982, which mitigated the removal to a thirty (30) day suspension. We reverse the decision of the full board and order that the presiding official’s decision be reinstated.

Background

Petitioner Bobby Mitchum (Mitchum) had been employed as one of twenty-seven heavy…