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United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. (1973) - formal rule-making requires statute that requires "hearing on the record." Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1978) - courts may not impose additional procedural requirements on top of the APA in rule-making.
Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."
Overton Park is one of "the most important cases in the administrative law repertoire". [11] It marked a shift in how lawyers attacked federal regulation, [11] and is considered a landmark case. [2] Besides being the first interpretation of Section 701(a)(2) of the APA, it provided scholars with a "great deal" of information on Section 706 of ...
In 1939, Roosevelt requested for Attorney General Frank Murphy to form a committee to investigate practices and procedures in American administrative law and suggest improvements. That committee's report, the Final Report of Attorney General's Committee on Administrative Procedure , contained detailed information about the development and ...
This category includes United States case law interpreting the general processes of administrative law and agency authority to make and interpret it. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Since being handed down, Chevron had become among the most frequently cited cases in American administrative law. [7] Over 17,000 lower federal court decisions and 70 decisions by the Supreme Court itself cited Chevron. [8] Between 2003 and 2013, circuit courts applied Chevron in 77% of decisions regarding regulatory disputes. [9]
NRDC won the case in a federal court, but the Supreme Court overturned that decision and ruled in favor of Chevron on the grounds that the courts should broadly defer to EPA and other independent regulatory agencies. Chevron was one of the most important decisions in U.S. administrative law and was cited in thousands of cases. [4]
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 463 U.S. 29 (1983), commonly known in U.S. administrative law as State Farm, is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning regulations requiring passive restraints in cars.