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In public administration, administrative discretion refers to the flexible exercising of judgment and decision making allowed to public administrators. [1] [2] Regulatory agencies have the power to exercise this type of discretion in their day-to-day activities, and there have been cases where regulatory agencies have abused this power.
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."
Goldberg v. Kelly (1970) - When does state or federal law create rights protected by due process? Mathews v. Eldridge (1976) - What level of procedural due process is required? Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. (1982) – Does an adjudicating agency's termination of an action due to its own failure to comply with the law deny due process to the ...
Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regulations"), adjudication, and the enforcement of laws. Administrative law is considered a branch of public law.
The Final Report made several recommendations about standardizing administrative procedures, but Congress delayed action as the US entered World War II. In 2005, the House Judiciary Committee undertook an Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project to consider changes to the Administrative Procedure Act. [needs update]
In this sense quasi-legislative activity occurs at the discretion of elected officials. Nevertheless, administrative agencies create and enforce many legal rules on their own, often without the advice of lawmakers, and the rules have the force of law. This means they have a binding effect on the general public.
The administrative state is created when legislative (law-making) bodies, like the U.S. Congress or the U.K. Parliament, delegate their lawmaking powers to administrative or private entities. [8] Nondelegation is a legal principle that a branch of government cannot authorize another entity to exercise powers or functions assigned to itself. It ...
Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization, 239 U.S. 441 (1915), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that due process protections attach only to administrative activities in which a small number of people are concerned, who are exceptionally affected by the act, in each case upon individual grounds.