How do I find the Merit Systems Protection Reporter?
I am trying to find cases decided by the US Merit Systems Protection Board. The Board's website only has cases from the last 5 years. The cases I need to look up are older than that. The legal citation for these cases is M.S.P.R..
Answer
Thank you for your question.
According to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board Precedential Decisions page, older decisions than the last 5 years may be found using the Advanced Search, which is available at https://www.mspb.gov/decisions/PrecedentialDecSearch.html
The agency's contact information is listed at the bottom of the page in case you have questions about the content of their database.
The United States Merit Systems Protection Board Reporter is a commercial, subscription-based publication available in several law libraries, either in paper or online through LexisNexis. It covers decisions from 1985 to 2017.
You can find a list of libraries that have paper copies of this reporter in WorldCat at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33870750
A list of libraries that have this publication available through LexisNexis is available in WorldCat at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/321084365
Decisions of the United States Merit Systems Protection Board from 1979 to 1983 are available online at HathiTrust and other websites. The HathiTrust version is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010317862
I hope this information is helpful. If this is not what you need, or if you should require any further assistance, please let us know.
Bobby Griffith
Lead Government Information Reference Associate
Sycamore Library
University of North Texas Libraries
Bobby.Griffith@unt.edu