Case: 23-1910 Document: 33 Page: 1 Filed: 09/05/2024

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________ TASHA LONG, Petitioner v. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Respondent ______________________ 2023-1910 ______________________ Petition for review of the Merit Systems Protection Board in No. SF-0432-22-0409-I-1. ______________________ JUDGMENT ______________________ THOMAS FRITZ MUTHER, JR., Minahan Muther Klinger, PC, Denver, CO, argued for petitioner.

RETA EMMA BEZAK, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Wash- ington, DC, argued for respondent. Also represented by BRIAN M. BOYNTON, TARA K. HOGAN, PATRICIA M.

MCCARTHY. ______________________ THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is Case: 23-1910 Document: 33 Page: 2 Filed: 09/05/2024

ORDERED and ADJUDGED: PER CURIAM (DYK and STOLL, Circuit Judges, and MURPHY, District Judge 1).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

September 5, 2024 Date

Honorable John F. Murphy, District Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylva- nia, sitting by designation.