Reese Ruffin, Petitioner, v. Department of the Army, Respondent, 852 F.2d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 1988)

The decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (board), Docket No. AT07528610176, affirming the presiding official's findings that the petitioner struck his supervisor and also was insubordinate and disrespectful, but modifying the penalty from a 60-day suspension to removal, as originally imposed by the agency, is affirmed on the basis of the reasoning set forth in the board's decision dated October 22, 1987.