Dewey Publications Inc.
Online Store


Home
About Us
Customer Service
Helpful Links
11MSCS.jpg
MSPB Case Summaries (pdf eBook) (2011)
By: Broida & Davis
Price: $200.00
Sku: 11MSCS-PDF
Edition: 2nd/2011
ISBN: 1-934651-47-8
Availability: IN-STOCK (released 05/17/11)
Format: eBook (.pdf) download + optional print copy | Change to Book (+ optional CD) format

A one-of-a-kind research tool, MSPB Case Summaries compiles and condenses precedential and nonprecedential MSPB and Federal Circuit decisions of significance. Arranged by subject matter areas of Board jurisprudence and further categorized alphabetically, representatives and researchers rely on MSPB Case Summaries to quickly locate relevant decisions, use the hyperlink to access the full text and cut and paste the summaries directly into motions and briefs. Practitioners, researchers and adjudicators who are involved in the litigation of Board cases use this guide for its reporting of cases relating to:

  • Adverse Actions—including constructive adverse actions
  • Arbitration/Collective Bargaining Related Issues—including Board jurisdiction over arbitration decisions, elections of remedies
  • Attorney Fees—including prevailing party status
  • Board Procedures—including dismissals, prehearing procedures, reopening and reconsideration, and withdrawals
  • Compliance and Enforcement—including return to duty
  • Constitutional Issues—including search and seizure, First and Fifth Amendment issues, and equal protection
  • Defenses—including collateral estoppel, disparate penalties, res judicata, and prohibited personnel practices
  • Discovery
  • Discrimination—including disabilities, mixed cases procedure, and remedies
  • Evidence—including circumstantial and direct, credibility findings, and new and material evidence
  • Harmful Error—including errors in the proposal notice and reply process
  • Hearings—including right to a hearing, telephonic hearings, witnesses, and testimony
  • Interim Relief
  • Judges—including authority and bias
  • Judicial Review
  • Jurisdiction—including appointments, excepted service, nature of the personnel action, and probationers
  • Leave
  • Mitigation—including the Douglas factors
  • Mootness
  • Nexus—including nexus determinations
  • Pay Issues
  • Performance-Based Actions Under Chapter 43—including performance improvement periods and performance standards
  • Prohibited Personnel Practices—including burdens of proof, IRAs, and whistleblowing reprisal
  • Reductions In Force
  • Reemployment Rights
  • Remedies—including back pay and reinstatement
  • Representation
  • Retirement—including annuities, and disability and optional retirements
  • Sanctions
  • Settlement—breach, compliance and enforcement, construction and interpretation, last chance agreements, and setting aside an agreement
  • Statutory and Regulatory Construction
  • Substantive Offenses—including insubordination, negligence, security clearance issues, absences, threats, misuse of government property, falsification, and more
  • Timeliness—including excuses for late filings
  • USERRA
  • VEOA
The compilation serves as a great point of quick reference for attorneys and researchers who understand the basic structure of Board caselaw and is a useful adjunct to the Guide to Merit Systems Protection Board Law and Practice. Checking both references reduces the possibility that a relevant case will be missed during research of Board law.

Also included are a summary and detailed table of contents.

Also available as a .pdf file on CD-ROM or as an ebook for instant download. Hyperlinks allow the reader to move quickly between the Table of Contents and the corresponding portions of the text. Internal hyperlinks serve as a cross-reference feature within the text, and web links of major cases take users to full text versions available online. 550+ pages.

Information Link: Table of Contents ------- Text Sample

Quantity: Add to Cart





Related Items

(2005) MSPB Basics: The Agency Edition (2005) MSPB Basics: The Agency Edition

For the benefit of agency representatives, this introductory, yet thorough discourse on MSPB practice covers seminal Board and Federal Circuit decisions, Board processes and litigation from the initial appeal through PFR, and regulations. Major topics include Board overview, agency appeal response, discovery, motions practice, settlement, discrimination issues, prehearing procedures, hearings, petition for review, counsel fee petitions, relationships with the judge, opposing counsel and pro se appellants, research, and significant decisions of the Board. (more details)

(2004) MSPB Basics (2004) MSPB Basics

An introductory discourse on MSPB practice, MSPB Basics covers seminal Board and Federal Circuit decisions, Board processes and litigation from the initial appeal through PFR, and relevant regulations. Major topics include an overview of the Board, filing an appeal, the agency’s response and preliminary motions, discovery and motion practice, discrimination, pre-hearing practice, hearing, settlement, whistleblower claims, petitions for review, and significant decisions of the Board. (more details)