       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                   MICHAEL AWE,
                      Petitioner

                           v.

     MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                   Respondent
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                      2019-1058
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   Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
Board in No. CH-315H-18-0384-I-1.
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                     JUDGMENT
                ______________________

   MICHAEL T. SMITH, Michael T. Smith & Assoc.,
Schaumburg, IL, argued for petitioner.

     KATHERINE MICHELLE SMITH, Office of General Coun-
sel, Merit Systems Protection Board, Washington, DC, ar-
gued for respondent.      Also represented by TRISTAN
LEAVITT.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is
ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

     PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, PLAGER and DYK,
Circuit Judges).
          AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                     ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



September 10, 2019              /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
      Date                      Peter R. Marksteiner
                                Clerk of Court
