National Treasury Employees Union (nteu) v. FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS FLRA Nos. AUTHORITY, SF-CA-02-0003

FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
 NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES
UNION (NTEU),
Petitioner,
v. No. 05-76783
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS FLRA Nos.
AUTHORITY, SF-CA-02-0003
Respondent,  SF-CA-02-0060
and SF-CA-03-0183
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND OPINION
BORDER PROTECTION, UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY,
Intervenor. 
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Federal Labor Relations Authority
Argued and Submitted
December 5, 2007—San Francisco, California
Filed December 19, 2007
Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Robert E. Cowen* and
Michael Daly Hawkins, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam Opinion
*The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge
for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.
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COUNSEL
Robert H. Shriver, III; Gregory O’Duden, 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, Fed-
eral Labor Relations Authority, Washington, DC, for the
respondent.
Howard S. Scher; Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral; William Kanter, Department of Justice, Civil Division,
Appellate Staff, Washington, DC; James N. DeStefano, Asso-
ciate Chief Counsel; David Goldfarb, Assistant Chief Coun-
sel; Caroline M. Blessey, Assistant Chief Counsel, United
States Customs and Border Protection, United States Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, for the interve-
nor.
OPINION
PER CURIAM:
We deny the petition for review for the reasons given by
the D.C. Circuit in National Treasury Employees Union v.
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Federal Labor Relations Authority, 453 F.3d 506, 511-12
(D.C. Cir. 2006), whose rationale we adopt as our own.
PETITION DENIED.
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