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MEEHAN v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

Appeal No. 83-690.

718 F.2d 1069 (1983)

Charles Patrick MEEHAN, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

October 6, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Schwartz, Washington, D.C., argued for petitioner.

Sara V. Greenberg, Washington, D.C., argued for respondent. With her on the brief were J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Director and Thomas W. Petersen, Washington, D.C.

Before BENNETT, SMITH and NIES, Circuit Judges.

NIES, Circuit Judge.

Charles Patrick Meehan was removed from his position as a Distribution Clerk with the U.S. Postal Service (the agency) for threatening to do bodily harm to two senior Post Office officials. Meehan attacks the merits of the decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (board) upholding his removal and asserts that the penalty is "unconscionably disproportionate" to the offense. The agency has moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the...

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