By: Broida
Price: $850.00
Edition: 43rd/2026
ISBN: 978-1-956013-52-8
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Revised annually since 1984, A Guide to Merit Systems Protection Board Law and Practice provides analysis and summaries of MSPB precedential and nonprecedential cases issued since the inception of that agency in 1978, along with decisions of the Board’s reviewing court, the Federal Circuit, since the inception of that court in 1982. The 2026 edition includes analysis of 2025 and early 2026 decisions of MSPB and the courts, and regulatory and Executive Order developments in 2024-2026. Statutes and regulations are analyzed, and practical litigation advice is provided in a four-volume set of over 5,900 pages in print, and in a PDF format linked to internet sources of significant cases and internally linked to permit cross-referencing during research, with the ability to cut and paste text from the PDF into documents. The Guide is a principal research source for civil service law. Its author litigates cases at MSPB and the Federal Circuit. Chapters of the Guide include:
MSPB Structure and Jurisdiction
Appeals
Discovery; Sanctions
Hearing
Evidence
Initial Decisions
Petitions for Review
Adverse Actions
Nexus
Penalty Determinations
Substantive Offenses
Performance Cases
Reduction in Force
Harmful Error
Discrimination
Prohibited Personnel Practices
Retirement
Reemployment
Attorney fees
Settlement
Remedies
Enforcement
Sanctions
Judicial Review
Research, Reference Materials, and Forms
Bibliography
New in 2026
- Effect on Board jurisdiction of Schedule Policy/Career; loss of adverse action jurisdiction over appeals of administrative judges exercising quasi-executive or policy-making functions;
- Transfer of MSPB appellate jurisdiction to OPM for RIF, suitability, and probationary termination challenges; impact on review authority of arbitrators;
- Executive orders and OPM regulations affecting clean paper settlements, duration of PIPs, arbitrators’ mitigation authority;
- Decisions interpreting unitary penalties; USERRA reprisal; performance standards structure; due process requirements for proposing and deciding officials; application of Weingarten rights in agency investigations; IRA coverage for employees who file grievances; pecuniary damages in mixed-case appeals cases for tax increases resulting from lump sum back pay awards; USERRA pay adjustments for reservists; notice to agencies of FMLA use.



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(2026) A Guide to FLRA Law and Practice
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(2023) A Federal Sector Guide to the FMLA & Related Litigation
(2023) Motions Practice before the MSPB and the EEOC
(2026) MSPB Case Summaries
(2025) MSPB Case Summaries
(2025) MSPB Charges & Penalties