NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

HAROLD MURVEIT, Petitioner,

v.

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Respondent. ______________________

2012-3068 ______________________

Petition for review of an arbitrator’s decision by Laurence M. Evans. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

JACOB HEYMAN-KANTOR, Assistant Counsel, National Treasury Employees Union, of Washington, DC, argued for petitioner. With him on the brief were GREGORY O’DUDEN, General Counsel, and JULIE M. WILSON, Associ- ate General Counsel.

TARA H. HOGAN, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litiga- tion Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respondent. On the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Acting Assistant Attor- ney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and TODD M. HUGHES, Deputy Director and ALLISON KIDD MILLER, Senior Trial Counsel. Of counsel was ROBERT M. MIRKOV, Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, of Washington, DC. ______________________ THIS CAUSE HAVING BEEN HEARD AND CONSIDERED, IT IS

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, SCHALL, and WALLACH, Circuit Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

January 28, 2013 /s/ Jan Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk