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Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker Dec 2014

Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Chevron At 30: Looking Back And Looking Forward, Peter M. Shane, Christopher J. Walker Nov 2014

Foreword: Chevron At 30: Looking Back And Looking Forward, Peter M. Shane, Christopher J. Walker

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Three Phases Of Mead, Kristin E. Hickman Nov 2014

The Three Phases Of Mead, Kristin E. Hickman

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Improving Agencies’ Preemption Expertise With Chevmore Codification , Kent Barnett Nov 2014

Improving Agencies’ Preemption Expertise With Chevmore Codification , Kent Barnett

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federalism At Step Zero, Miriam Seifter Nov 2014

Federalism At Step Zero, Miriam Seifter

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chevron’S Generality Principles, Emily Hammond Nov 2014

Chevron’S Generality Principles, Emily Hammond

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chevron Inside The Regulatory State: An Empirical Assessment, Christopher J. Walker Nov 2014

Chevron Inside The Regulatory State: An Empirical Assessment, Christopher J. Walker

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chevron At The Roberts Court: Still Failing After All These Years, Jack M. Beermann Nov 2014

Chevron At The Roberts Court: Still Failing After All These Years, Jack M. Beermann

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Step Zero After City Of Arlington, Thomas W. Merrill Nov 2014

Step Zero After City Of Arlington, Thomas W. Merrill

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chevron And Deference In State Administrative Law , Aaron J. Saiger Nov 2014

Chevron And Deference In State Administrative Law , Aaron J. Saiger

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


What 30 Years Of Chevron Teach Us About The Rest Of Statutory Interpretation , Abbe R. Gluck Nov 2014

What 30 Years Of Chevron Teach Us About The Rest Of Statutory Interpretation , Abbe R. Gluck

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


In Search Of Skidmore, Peter L. Strauss Nov 2014

In Search Of Skidmore, Peter L. Strauss

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chevron And Skidmore In The Workplace: Unhappy Together, James J. Brudney Nov 2014

Chevron And Skidmore In The Workplace: Unhappy Together, James J. Brudney

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chevron Deference, The Rule Of Law, And Presidential Influence In The Administrative State, Peter M. Shane Nov 2014

Chevron Deference, The Rule Of Law, And Presidential Influence In The Administrative State, Peter M. Shane

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Billionaires, Birds, And Environmental Brawls: Reconceptualizing Energy Easements, Nadia B. Ahmad Sep 2014

Billionaires, Birds, And Environmental Brawls: Reconceptualizing Energy Easements, Nadia B. Ahmad

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

In the substantial power outages associated with Hurricane Sandy and the 2013 Oklahoma tornadoes and Colorado floods, which left millions without power, the United States witnessed the insufficiency of its existing energy infrastructure. The lack of access to reliable energy widens the cleavage between the rich and poor, particularly in times of disaster and crisis. Policymakers and government regulators involved with long distance energy transmission projects have not adequately instituted laws and policies for existing and future energy access. This Article holds that current regulations, practices, and norms for long distance energy transmission may be doomed because of complications with …


Fracking Preemption Litigation, James K. Pickle Sep 2014

Fracking Preemption Litigation, James K. Pickle

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

Fracking is not a new technology, but it only recently came to the forefront of energy industry news. Fracking’s recent fame has been both positive and negative. Fracking proponents have lauded the economic and environmental benefits of the process. They cite the process’ ability to extract formerly inaccessible oil and natural gas, which reduces the U.S.’s demand for foreign oil and natural gas and reduces the use of coal. In contrast, fracking opponents state fracking damages the environment by diluting drinking water with harmful chemicals, generating emissions, and creating general nuisances for communities. They believe fracking’s harmful impacts clearly outweigh …


Far From Fair, Farther From Efficient: The Ftc And The Hyper-Formalization Of Informal Rulemaking, Cooper J. Spinelli Aug 2014

Far From Fair, Farther From Efficient: The Ftc And The Hyper-Formalization Of Informal Rulemaking, Cooper J. Spinelli

Legislation and Policy Brief

Partially concerned with the proliferation of the “New Deal” agencies, Congress saw theAPAas a “compromise measure.” That is, Congress designed it to afford “uniformity and fairness in administrative procedures without at the same time unduly interfering with the efficient and economical operation of government.” Scholars and jurists from across the political spectrum have recognized that the notice-and-comment process allows for relative flexibility that can help “foster better government” by setting policy prospectively and expeditiously, thereby striking a reasonable balance between fairness and efficiency. In contrast to adjudicative measures, informal rulemaking can offer holistic treatment to market disorders—with considerable public input—without …


Pepperdine University School Of Law Legal Summaries, Hsuan Li Jun 2014

Pepperdine University School Of Law Legal Summaries, Hsuan Li

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


City Of Arlington V. Fcc: Jurisdictional Or Nonjurisdictional, Where To Draw The Line?, Whitney Ruijuan Hao Jun 2014

City Of Arlington V. Fcc: Jurisdictional Or Nonjurisdictional, Where To Draw The Line?, Whitney Ruijuan Hao

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Fixing Disability Courts, D. Randall Frye Jun 2014

Fixing Disability Courts, D. Randall Frye

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Regulatory Monopoly And Differential Pricing In The Market For Patents , Neel U. Sukhatme Jun 2014

Regulatory Monopoly And Differential Pricing In The Market For Patents , Neel U. Sukhatme

Washington and Lee Law Review

Patents are limited-term monopolies awarded to inventors to incentivize innovation. But there is another monopoly that has been largely overlooked at the heart of patent law: the monopoly of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) over the granting of patents. This Article addresses this topic by developing the notion of a regulatory monopoly, where a single governmental actor has the power to set prices in a regulatory area. The Article explains how regulatory monopolists like the PTO could enhance social welfare via differential pricing—by charging regulated entities differing fees based on their willingness and ability to pay. In particular, …


Facing Down The Trolls: States Stumble On The Bridge To Patent-Assertion Regulation , David Lee Johnson Jun 2014

Facing Down The Trolls: States Stumble On The Bridge To Patent-Assertion Regulation , David Lee Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Dynamic Forest Federalism, Blake Hudson Jun 2014

Dynamic Forest Federalism, Blake Hudson

Washington and Lee Law Review

State and local governments have long maintained regulatory authority to manage natural resources, and most subnational governments have politically exercised that authority to some degree. Policy makers, however, have increasingly recognized that the dynamic attributes of natural resources make them difficult to manage on any one scale of government. As a result, the nation has shifted toward multilevel governance known as “dynamic federalism” for many if not most regulatory subject areas, especially in the context of the natural environment. The nation has done so both legally and politically—the constitutional validity of expanded federal regulatory authority over resources has consistently been …


Legal Summaries, Hsuan Li May 2014

Legal Summaries, Hsuan Li

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Resolving The Alj Quandary, Kent Barnett May 2014

Resolving The Alj Quandary, Kent Barnett

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

Three competing constitutional and practical concerns surround federal administrative law judges (“ALJs”), who preside over all formal adjudications within the executive branch. First, if ALJs are “inferior Officers” (not mere employees), as five current Supreme Court Justices have suggested, the current method of selecting many ALJs likely violates the Appointments Clause. Second, a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision reserved the question whether the statutory protections that prevent ALJs from being fired at will impermissibly impinge upon the President’s supervisory power under Article II. Third, these same protections from removal may, on the other hand, be too limited to satisfy impartiality …


Unringing The Bell: Time For Epa To Reconsider Its Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, David Yaussy, Elizabeth Turgeon Apr 2014

Unringing The Bell: Time For Epa To Reconsider Its Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, David Yaussy, Elizabeth Turgeon

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


States, Agencies, And Legitimacy, Miriam Seifter Mar 2014

States, Agencies, And Legitimacy, Miriam Seifter

Vanderbilt Law Review

Scholarship on the administrative process has scarcely attended to the role that states play in federal regulation. This Article argues that it is time for that to change. An emerging, important new strand of federalism scholarship, known as "administrative federalism," now seeks to safeguard state interests in the administrative process and argues that federal agencies should consider state input when developing regulations. These ideas appear to be gaining traction in practice. States now possess privileged access to agency decisionmaking processes through a variety of formal and informal channels. And some courts have signaled support for the idea of a special …