
    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.
   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.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

PER CURIAM.

ORDER

Petitioner Robert D. Vocke, Jr. filed a petition for rehearing en banc. A response to the petition was invited by the court and filed by respondent Merit Systems Protection Board. The petition was first referred as a petition for rehearing to the panel that heard the appeal, and thereafter the petition for rehearing en banc and response were referred to the circuit judges who are in regular active service.

Upon consideration thereof,

It Is Ordered That:

The petition for panel rehearing is denied.

The petition for rehearing en banc is denied.

The mandate of the court will issue on July 27, 2017.  