Case Name: NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION (NTEU), Petitioner, v. FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY, Respondent, and United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Department of Homeland Security, Intervenor
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-12-19
Citations: 511 F.3d 893
Docket Number: No. 05-76783
Parties: NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION (NTEU), Petitioner, v. FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY, Respondent, and United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Department of Homeland Security, Intervenor.
Judges: Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ROBERT E. COWEN and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 511
Pages: 893–894

Head Matter:
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION (NTEU), Petitioner, v. FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY, Respondent, and United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Department of Homeland Security, Intervenor.
No. 05-76783.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Dec. 5, 2007.
Filed Dec. 19, 2007.
Robert H. Shriver, III; Gregory O’Du-den, General Counsel; Elaine Kaplan, Senior Deputy General Counsel; Larry J. Adkins, Deputy General Counsel; Julie M. Wilson, Assistant Counsel, National Treasury Employees Union, Washington, DC, for the petitioner.
James F. Blandford; William R. Tobey, Acting Solicitor, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, DC, for the respondent.
Howard S. Scher; Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General; William Kanter, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC; James N. DeStefano, Associate Chief Counsel; David Goldfarb, Assistant Chief Counsel; Caroline M. Blessey, Assistant Chief Counsel, United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, for the intervenor.
Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ROBERT E. COWEN and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
We deny the petition for review for the reasons given by the D.C. Circuit in National Treasury Employees Union v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, 453 F.3d 506, 511-12 (D.C.Cir.2006), whose rationale we adopt as our own.
PETITION DENIED.