Case Name: Robert D. VOCKE, Jr., Petitioner v. MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-07-20
Citations: 868 F.3d 1341
Docket Number: 2016-2390
Parties: Robert D. VOCKE, Jr., Petitioner v. MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD, Respondent
Judges: Before PROST, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, LOURIE, DYK, MOORE, O’MALLEY, REYNA, WALLACH, TARANTO, CHEN, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 868
Pages: 1341–1341

Head Matter:
Robert D. VOCKE, Jr., Petitioner v. MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD, Respondent
2016-2390
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
July 20, 2017
Eric Shumsky, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, DC, filed a petition for rehearing en banc for petitioner Robert D. Vocke, Jr. Also represented by Thomas Mark Bondy, Hannah Garden-Monheit; Christopher J. Cariello, New York, NY.
Jeffrey Gauger, Office of the General Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board, Washington, DC, filed a response to the petition for respondent Merit Systems Protection Board. Also represented by Bryan G. Polisuk, Katherine M. Smith.
Before PROST, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, LOURIE, DYK, MOORE, O’MALLEY, REYNA, WALLACH, TARANTO, CHEN, HUGHES, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
WALLACH, Circuit Judge,
with whom NEWMAN and O'MALLEY, Circuit Judges, join, dissent from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc for the reasons stated in the dissent from denial of the petition for rehearing en banc in Fedora v. Merit Systems Protection Board, No. 15-3039.
STOLL, Circuit Judge, dissents without opinion from the denial of the petition for rehearing en banc.