WASHINGTON v. DEPARTMENT OF ARMY

Appeal No. 86-1460.

813 F.2d 390 (1987)

Teresa J. WASHINGTON, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF the ARMY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

March 11, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Price, Washington, D.C., argued, for petitioner.

Elizabeth Woodruff, Commercial Litigation Branch, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued, for respondent. With her on the brief, were Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Director and Thomas W. Petersen, Asst. Director. Carolyn Lynch, Asst. Counsel for Litigation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and FRIEDMAN and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner challenges a decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (Board) sustaining her removal from her position with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (agency) for absence without leave, 30 M.S.P.R. 614 (1986). We affirm.

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The petitioner had been employed as a secretary with the agency since 1980. In January of 1985, the petitioner learned that she was pregnant but did not notify her superior of her condition...

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