         NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                PATRICK H. CAREY,
                    Petitioner

                           v.

        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
                   Respondent
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                      2018-1479
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   Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
Board in No. CH-0752-16-0423-I-3.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   NORMAN JACKMAN, Jackman & Roth, LLP, Lincoln,
NH, argued for petitioner.

    VITO SALVATORE SOLITRO, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of
Justice, Washington, DC, argued for respondent. Also
represented by CLAUDIA BURKE, ROBERT EDWARD
KIRSCHMAN, JR., JOSEPH H. HUNT.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is
ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (MOORE, WALLACH, and CHEN, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                   ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



November 7, 2018              /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                     Peter R. Marksteiner
                              Clerk of Court
