        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


 United States Court of Appeals
     for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

      BRIAN E. ULRICH, MICHAEL E. JONES,
     JOHN B. RUBINSKY, JOHN A. DUKES, JR.,
   JOHN EVANGELISTA AND GERALD WIMBERLY,
                   Petitioners,

                            v.

      MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                 Respondent,

                           AND

         UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE,
                   Intervenor.

                  ____________________

                       2012-3035
                 ______________________

     Appeal from the Merit Systems Protection Board in
consolidated case nos. PH0752100649-I-1, PH0351110034-I-
1, PH0351110035-I-1, PH0752110036-I-1, PH0752110037-I-
1, and SF0752110079-I-1.

                 ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________
   DENNIS L. FRIEDMAN, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
argued for petitioners.

    JEFFREY A. GAUGER, Attorney, Office of the General
Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board, argued for
respondent. With him on the brief were JAMES M.
EISENMANN, General Counsel, and KEISHA DAWN BELL,
Deputy General Counsel.

    L. MISHA PREHEIM, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States
Department of Justice, Washington, DC, argued for
intervenor. With her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY,
Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON,
Director, REGINALD T. BLADES, JR., Assistant Director. Of
counsel was SHAYLA MCGEE SIPP.
                 ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, DYK, and REYNA,
Circuit Judges).


           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



 January 15, 2013            /s/ Jan Horbaly
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