In considering a motion for reconsideration, the Board has applied a four-part test to determine whether the movant has demonstrated:
(i) material differences in fact or law from that presented to a court of which the moving party could not have known through reasonable diligence, (ii) new material facts that occurred after the court’s decision, (iii) a change in the law after the court’s decision, and (iv) failure to consider material facts presented to the court before its decision.[8 ]
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Upon review of Powers’s motion we conclude that she has failed to meet any of the provisions of the Board’s four-part test for reconsideration. Instead Powers’s motion consists of a rehashing of arguments the Board has already considered and rejected and allegations not material to the basis for the Board’s F. D. & O. Accordingly, we DENY Powers’s motions in their entirety.
SO ORDERED.
M. CYNTHIA DOUGLASS
Chief Administrative Appeals Judge
DAVID G. DYE
Administrative Appeals Judge
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1 49 U.S.C.A. § 42121 (West 2005 Supp.). AIR 21 extends whistleblower protection to employees in the air carrier industry who engage in certain activities that are related to air carrier safety. 29 C.F.R. § 1979.101 (2007). Air carriers, contractors and their subcontractors are prohibited from discharging or "otherwise discriminat[ing] against any employee with respect to the employee’s compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because the employee (or any person acting pursuant to a request of the employee)," engaged in the air carrier safety-related activities the statute covers. 49 U.S.C.A. § 42121(a); 29 C.F.R. § 1979.102(a).
2 Macktal v. Chao, 286 F.3d 822, 826 (5th Cir. 2002), aff’g Macktal v. Brown & Root, Inc., ARB Nos. 98-112/122A, ALJ No. 86-ERA-023, slip op. at 2-6 (ARB Nov. 20, 1998); Powers v. Pinnacle Airlines, Inc., ARB No. 04-102, ALJ No. 2004-AIR-006, slip op. at 1 (ARB Feb. 17, 2005). See also Henrich v. Ecolab, Inc., ARB No. 05-030, ALJ No. 2004-SOX-051, slip op. at 11 (ARB May 30, 2007).
3 See generally 16A CHARLES ALLEN WRIGHT, ARTHUR R. MILLER & EDWARD H. COOPER, FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE § 3986.1 (West 2006).
4 Fed. R. App. P. 40(a)(2).
5 United States v. Smith, 781 F.2d 184 (10th Cir. 1986).
6 Utahns for Better Transp. v. United States Dep’t of Transp., 319 F.3d 1207, 1210 (10th Cir. 2003); FDIC v. Massingill, 30 F.3d 601, 605 (5th Cir. 1994); American Policyholders Ins. Co. v. Nyacol Prods., 989 F.2d 1256, 1264 (1st Cir. 1993).
7 Lowry v. Bankers Life & Cas. Ret. Plan, 871 F.2d 522, 523 n.1, 525-526 (5th Cir. 1989).
8 Chelladurai v. Infinite Solutions, Inc., ARB No. 03-072, ALJ No. 03-LCA-004, slip op. at 2 (ARB July 24, 2006); Rockefeller v. U.S. Dep’t of Energy, ARB Nos. 03-048, 03-184; ALJ Nos. 2002-CAA-005, 2003-ERA-010, slip op. at 2 (ARB May 17, 2006); Saban v. Morrison-Knudsen, ARB No. 03-143, ALJ No. 03-PSI-001, slip op. at 2 (ARB May 17, 2006); Halpern v. XL Capital, Ltd., ARB No 04-120, ALJ No. 2004 SOX-054, slip op. at 2 (ARB Apr. 4, 2006); Getman v. Southwest Secs., ARB No. 04-059, ALJ No. 2003-SOX-008, slip op. at 1-2 (ARB Mar. 7, 2006); Knox v. Dep’t of the Interior, ARB No. 03-040, ALJ No. 2001-LCA-003, slip op. at 3 (ARB Oct. 24, 2005).