873 F.2d 1451
Unpublished Disposition
NOTICE: Federal Circuit Local Rule 47.8(b) states that opinions and orders which are designated as not citable as precedent shall not be employed or cited as precedent. This does not preclude assertion of issues of claim preclusion, issue preclusion, judicial estoppel, law of the case or the like based on a decision of the Court rendered in a nonprecedential opinion or order.
Rafael D. GARCIA, Petitioner,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Respondent.
No. 88-3437.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
April 7, 1989.
Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, SKELTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and NIES, Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM.
The decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (board), Docket No. DA34438810214 dismissing for untimely filing of Rafael D. Garcia's appeal of his removal from his position with the Department of Agriculture in Brownsville, Texas, and his alleged involuntary retirement from such position, is affirmed on the basis of the opinion of the board's administrative judge dated March 31, 1988.