       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


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

                           v.

        DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
                  Respondent.
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                      2012-3153
                ______________________

   Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
Board in No. DC0752100802-B-2.
.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    DAVID A. BRANCH, Law Office of David A. Branch &
Associates, PLLC, of Washington, DC, argued for peti-
tioner.

     MICHELLE MILBERG, Attorney, Commercial Litigation
Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of
Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent. With
her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Principal Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Direc-
tor, and REGINALD T. BLADES, JR., Assistant Director.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, LOURIE, and
O'MALLEY, Circuit Judges.).


           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



April 8, 2013                /s/ Jan Horbaly
   Date                         Jan Horbaly
                                  Clerk
