       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                 EARNEST HOWARD,
                     Petitioner

                            v.

           DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY,
                    Respondent
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                       2015-3024
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   Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
Board in No. SF-0752-13-0360-I-2, SF-0752-13-1822-I-1.
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                      JUDGMENT
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    DAVID PAUL CLISHAM, Clisham & Sorter, San Francis-
co, CA, argued for petitioner. Also represented by JUSTINE
LIV CLISHAM.

    JESSICA R. TOPLIN, Commercial Litigation Branch,
Civil Division, United States Department of Justice,
Washington, DC, argued for respondent. Also represented
by BENJAMIN C. MIZER, ROBERT E. KIRSCHMAN, JR.,
DEBORAH A. BYNUM; MICHAEL J. RHOADES, United States
Department of the Army, Scott AFB, IL.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


January 11, 2016              /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
     Date                     Daniel E. O’Toole
                              Clerk of Court
