         NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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           HECTOR GONZALEZ-PAGAN,
                   Petitioner

                           v.

     MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD,
                   Respondent
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                      2018-1572
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   Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection
Board in No. NY-4324-17-0161-I-1.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   JUAN RAMON RODRIGUEZ, Rodriguez Lopez Law Office,
Ponce, PR, argued for petitioner.

   KATRINA LEDERER, Office of General Counsel, Merit
Systems Protection Board, Washington, DC, argued for re-
spondent. Also represented by KATHERINE MICHELLE
SMITH, TRISTAN LEAVITT.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is
ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                  ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



   May 15, 2019               /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
       Date                    Peter R. Marksteiner
                               Clerk of Court
