Opinion ID: 4523916
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Denial of Additional Witnesses

Text: Ms. Demery asserts that the Board erred in denying her the ability to call two additional witnesses. The Board determined it was unnecessary to hear from the two additional witnesses based on the testimony of Ms. Langley and Mr. Denham. Appx71, 73. The Board has broad discretion to exclude witnesses if their testimony would be irrelevant, immaterial, or repetitious. See 5 C.F.R. § 1201.41(b)(10); Case: 19-2282 Document: 35 Page: 8 Filed: 04/09/2020 8 DEMERY v. ARMY Curtin v. Office of Pers. Mgmt., 846 F.2d 1373, 1378 (Fed. Cir. 1988); see also Davis v. Dep’t of Army, 710 F. App’x 875, 880 (Fed. Cir. 2017) (finding that the Board did not abuse its discretion where it excluded witnesses). Our court will not overturn the Board’s decision to exclude witnesses unless the exclusion is a clear and harmful abuse of discretion. See Curtin, 846 F.2d at 1378 (“Procedural matters relative to discovery and evidentiary issues fall within the sound discretion of the board and its officials.”). In Ms. Demery’s appeal, the Board determined that the testimony of the other two witnesses would not provide any additional relevant information because both of those witnesses worked under Ms. Langley and the Board had already heard testimony from Ms. Langley. Appx71. Ms. Demery did not have any interactions with the two witnesses and the RPA tracker contained in the record detailed the entries of the two witnesses with respect to the Management Analyst position candidate selection. Appx90. We find under these circumstances the Board did not abuse its discretion in excluding the testimony of the two witnesses.