Administrative Law A2 – Fall 2010

Professor Stephenson

Langdell South (Kirkland & Ellis Room), Mon-Tues, 8:10-10:10

Course Description: This course will study law making and law application by executive departments of government. Using the material covered in the first-year “Legislation and Regulation” course as a foundation, this class will cover a variety of topics, including the legal framework (both constitutional and statutory) that governs administrative adjudication; the proper role of agencies in interpreting statutory and regulatory law; public participation in agency rulemaking; and judicial review of agency decisions;. The central theme of the course is how the law manages the tension between “rule of law” values (e.g., procedural regularity, accountability, and substantive limits on arbitrary action) and the desire for flexible, effective administrative governance.

The casebook is Strauss, Rakoff & Farina eds., Gellhorn and Byse’s Administrative Law (rev’d 10th ed. 2003). Casebook readings are marked “CB.” There is also a supplemental reading packet, available from the CopyCenter. Readings from the supplement are marked “Supp.”

SYLLABUS

  1. Administrative Adjudication
  1. Constitutional Issues

(1) Tues., Sept. 7th – Article III: The Right to a Judicial Forum

CB 118-138 (CFTC v. Schor)

(2) Mon. Sept. 13th – Due Process: The Right to an Administrative Hearing

CB 767-769 (introductory note on Due Process)

Supp. 6-8 (Yamataya v. Fisher)

CB 238-248 (Londoner v. Denver, Bi-Metallic v. State Board of Equalization)

CB 783-790 (Goldberg v. Kelly)

CB 837-851 (Mathews v. Eldridge)

(3) Tues., Sept. 14th – Due Process: The Right to an Impartial Adjudicator

CB 407-423(FTC v. Cement Institute, Withrow v. Larkin)

Supp. 9-29 (Cinderella Career and Finishing Schools v. FTC; Ass’n of Nat’l Advertisers v. FTC)

[NO CLASS SEPT. 20th-21st – FLY OUT WEEK]

  1. APA Regulation of Agency Adjudication

(4) Mon., Sept. 27th – The APA and Adjudicative Neutrality

CB 254-262(Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath)

Supp. 30-44 (Marcello v. Bonds, Ass’n of ALJs v. Heckler, Nash v. Bowen)

CB 1347-1350 (APA §§ 3105, 7521, 5372, 3344, 1305)

CB 1344 (APA §559)

(5) Tues., Sept. 28th– When Is Formal Adjudication Required?

Supp. 45-60 (Seacoast Anti-Pollution League v. Costle, Chemical Waste Management v. EPA, Dominion Energy v. Johnson)

CB 1337-1344 (APA §§ 554, 556, 557)

(6) Mon., Oct. 4th – APA Hearing Procedures: Participation, Evidence, Findings

CB 334-345 (Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. FCC, Envirocare of Utah v. NRC)

Supp. 61-66(Seacoast Anti-Pollution League v. Costle)

CB 351-374(Castillo-Villagra v. INS; Armstrong v. CFTC)

(7) Tues., Oct. 5th – Review of Agency Fact-Finding in Adjudication

CB 936-965 (Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, Allentown Mack Sales and Service v. NLRB)

CB 1347 (APA § 706)

[NO CLASS OCT. 11th – COLUMBUS DAY]

(8) Tues., Oct. 12th – Using Rulemaking To Resolve Disputed Facts

Supp. 67-89 (Air Line Pilots Ass’n v. Quesada, Yetman v. Garvey, Heckler v. Campbell, FCC v. WNCN Listeners Guild)

(9) Mon., Oct. 18th – Adjudicative Consistency and Administrative Precedent

CB 908-916(Shaw’s Supermarkets v. NLRB)

Supp. 90-116 (NLRB v. Weingarten, Brennan v. Gilles & Cotting, United Automobile Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers v. NLRB, Fox Television v. FCC)

(10) Tues., Oct. 19th – Administrative Retroactivity

CB 556-563 (SEC v. Chenery Corp.)

CB 566-571 (Bell Aerospace v. NLRB; NLRB v. Bell Aerospace)

Supp. 117-141 (Laidlaw v. NLRB; Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union v. NLRB; Int’l Ass’n of Machinists v. NLRB; Bowen v. GeorgetownUniversityHospital;Smiley v. Citibank)

  1. Administrative Interpretations of Law

(11) Mon., Oct. 25th – Chevron and Interpretive Canons

CB 1026-1045 (Chevron v. NRDC) (skim)

Supp. 142-181 (DeBartolo v. Florida Gulf Coast Building & Trades, Rust v. Sullivan, Morales-Izquierdo v. Gonzales, SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Department of Education v. Riley)

(12) Tues., Oct. 26th – Chevron’s Domain

Supp. 182-192 (Adams Fruit Co. v. Barrett, Christensen v. HarrisCounty)

CB 1068-1091 (United States v. Mead Corporation)

(13) Mon., Nov. 1st – Deference and Interpretive Consistency

Supp. 193-214 (INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, Neal v. United States, Nat’l Cable & Telecom Ass’n v. Brand X Internet Services)

(14) Tues., Nov. 2nd – Deference and Overlapping Jurisdiction

Supp. 215-231 (Rapaport v. Office of Thrift Supervision, Martin v. OSHRC, Collins v. NTSB)

(15) Mon., Nov. 8th – Agency Interpretation of Agency Regulations

Supp. 232-247 (Auer v. Robbins, Thomas Jefferson Univ. v. Shalala, Paralyzed Veterans of America v. D.C. Arena, Paragon Health Network v. Thompson)

(16) Tues., Nov. 9th – Complex Questions of Agency Legal Interpretation

Supp. 248-308 (Oregon v. Ashcroft, Gonzales v. Oregon)

  1. External Participation in Administrative Decision-Making

(17) Mon., Nov. 15th – Presidential Oversight of Rulemaking

Supp. 309-330 (Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB)

CB 638-663 (discussion of OIRA review)

CB 1370-1382 (Executive Order 12,866)

(18) Tues., Nov. 16th – Sub-Delegation of Agency Functions

Supp. 331-350 (Batterton v. Francis; U.S. Telecom Ass’n v. FCC; Towne Construction Co. v. OSHRC; Hilario-Paulino v. Pugh)

(19) Mon., Nov. 22nd – Advisory Committees

Supp. 351-393 (Public Citizen v. DOJ, Association of American Physicians & Surgeons v. Clinton, In re Cheney)

(20) Tues., Nov. 23rd– Freedom of Information and Government in the Sunshine

CB 733-766 (NLRB v. Sears Roebuck & Co., Critical Mass Energy Project v. NRC, Chrysler Corp. v. Brown)

CB 1323-1336 (APA § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) (skim)

  1. Access to Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions
  1. Standing

(21) Mon., Nov. 29th – Constitutional Standing

CB 1139-1162 (Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, FEC v. Akins)

Supp. 394-417 (Massachusetts v. EPA, Summers v. Earth Island Institute)

(22) Tues., Nov. 30th – Statutory Standing

CB 1100-1106 (introduction to statutory standing and reviewability)

CB 1128-1139 (Association of Data Processing Service Organizations v. Camp)

CB 1162-1172 (Nat’l Credit Trust Union Admin. v. First Nat’l Bank & Trust)

CB 1345-1346 (APA §§ 701, 702, 704)

  1. Reviewability

(23) Mon., Dec. 6th – Statutory Preclusion of Review

CB 1181-1184 (Abbot Laboratories v. Gardner (Part I))

CB 1188-1206 (Block v. Community Nutrition Institute, Bowen v. MichiganAcademy of Family Physicians)

(24) Tues., Dec. 7th – Unreviewable Discretionary Acts

Supp. 418-430 (Heckler v. Chaney)

CB 1209-1228 (Webster v. Doe)

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