1201.117—Board action on petition for review or reopening.
(1)
Issue a decision that denies or grants a petition for review, modifies or supplements an initial decision, or reopens an appeal, and decides the case;
(4)
Remand the appeal so that the judge may take further testimony or evidence or make further findings or conclusions; or
(b)
The Board may affirm, reverse, modify, supplement, or vacate the initial decision of a judge, in whole or in part. The Board may issue a final decision and, when appropriate, order a date for compliance with that decision.
(c)
The Board may issue a final decision in the form of a Final Order or an Opinion and Order. In the Board's sole discretion, a Final Order may, but need not, include additional discussion of the issues raised in the appeal. All Final Orders are nonprecedential and may not be cited or referred to except by a party asserting issue preclusion, claim preclusion, collateral estoppel, res judicata, or law of the case. Only an Opinion and Order is a precedential decision of the Board, and an Opinion and Order may be appropriately cited or referred to by any party.