This popular title guides practitioners through discovery practice before the MSPB with forms, pertinent MSPB regulations, MSPB guidance issued to its judges, case law citations, relevant Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and samples of discovery requests and related motions. Provides appellant advocates, agency counsel, and decision makers guidance to use throughout the discovery process. Also included is detailed direction on the handling of witnesses during discovery, including extensive examples.

Agencies and appellants maximize discovery by following the authors' instructions on:

• Discovery: Overview and Rules—including discovery procedures, methods, rules, regulations, and statutes
• Non-Discovery Tools—including FOIA and Privacy Act
• Instructions to Parties—including samples of the instructions that typically precede written discovery
• Depositions—including preparation and sample deposition notices
• Interrogatories—including drafting and sample interrogatories covering principal issues raised within the jurisdiction of the MSPB
• Requests for Document Production—including procedure and samples of instructions and specific requests
• Physical and Mental Exams—including discussion of Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and sample motions and release forms
• Requests for Admissions—including samples
• Motions to Compel Discovery—including drafting, and sample motions and responses to motions
• Protection Against Discovery—including types of privileges; discovery that is burdensome, overly broad, unduly repetitious, and irrelevant; and methods of responding to improper requests
• Sanctions—including procedures and samples
• Use of Discovered Information—including instructional guidance on how to submit discovered information into the record
• Appendix I—Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Also includes a detailed table of contents.

Available as a softcover book and/or a PDF file with many useful features delivered on a CD-ROM, USB Flash Drive, or 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.

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