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Deference To Agency Interpretations Of Regulations: A Post-Chevron Assessment, Thomas A. Schweitzer, Russell L. Weaver Apr 2011

Deference To Agency Interpretations Of Regulations: A Post-Chevron Assessment, Thomas A. Schweitzer, Russell L. Weaver

Thomas A. Schweitzer

No abstract provided.


Testimony Of Rena Steinzor…Before The U.S. House Of Representatives, Energy And Commerce Committee, Subcommittee On Environment And Economics. 112th Congress, 1st Session (2011)., Rena Steinzor Feb 2011

Testimony Of Rena Steinzor…Before The U.S. House Of Representatives, Energy And Commerce Committee, Subcommittee On Environment And Economics. 112th Congress, 1st Session (2011)., Rena Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

Environmental regulations have saved millions of lives, preventing chronic respiratory illness and heart attacks in cities across the country. These rules protect children from irreversible neurological damage, save billions of dollars in cleanup costs, and preserve water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams. If anything, our regulatory system is dangerously weak, and Congress should focus on reviving it rather than eroding public protections….


Murky Immigration Law And The Challenges Facing Immigration Removal And Benefits Adjudication, Jill Family Dec 2010

Murky Immigration Law And The Challenges Facing Immigration Removal And Benefits Adjudication, Jill Family

Jill E. Family

Immigration adjudication is more diverse than it may seem. Scholars tend to focus on one aspect of administrative immigration adjudication, the decision-making process established to determine whether an individual may be removed (deported) from the United States. But there is a whole other function of administrative immigration adjudication that relatively is ignored in the legal literature. Immigration adjudicators are also tasked with determining whether to grant immigration benefits, such as whether to grant lawful permanent resident (green card) status.
Both types of administrative immigration adjudication, removal and benefits, are in crisis. This article explores the challenges facing each and argues …


An Introduction To The 2010 Model State Administrative Procedure Act, John L. Gedid Dec 2010

An Introduction To The 2010 Model State Administrative Procedure Act, John L. Gedid

John L. Gedid

No abstract provided.


One Year's Environmental Litigation: 1977-78, Oscar S. Gray Apr 2010

One Year's Environmental Litigation: 1977-78, Oscar S. Gray

Oscar S. Gray

No abstract provided.


The People's Agent: Executive Branch Secrecy And Accountability In An Age Of Terrorism, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor Oct 2009

The People's Agent: Executive Branch Secrecy And Accountability In An Age Of Terrorism, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend predates the 2000 presidential election, the movement towards government secrecy has accelerated dramatically in the Bush Administration. The case for open government is usually based on political principles embraced by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. This article seeks to bolster these arguments by applying “agency theory” to the question of how much secrecy is too much. While agency theory is most often used to analyze private sector economic relationships, commentators have also applied it to the analysis of methods for holding legislators and Executive …


"Streamlining" The Rule Of Law: How The Department Of Justice Is Undermining Judicial Review Of Agency Action, Shruti Rana May 2009

"Streamlining" The Rule Of Law: How The Department Of Justice Is Undermining Judicial Review Of Agency Action, Shruti Rana

Shruti Rana

Judicial review of administrative decision making is an essential institutional check on agency power. Recently, however, the Department of Justice dramatically revised its regulations in an attempt to insulate its decision making from public and federal court scrutiny. These “streamlining” rules, carried out in the name of national security and immigration reform, have led to a breakdown in the rule of law in our judicial system. While much attention has been focused on the Department of Justice’s recent attempts to shield executive power from the reach of Congress, its efforts to undermine judicial review have so far escaped such scrutiny. …


A Broader View Of The Immigration Adjudication Problem, Jill Family Dec 2008

A Broader View Of The Immigration Adjudication Problem, Jill Family

Jill E. Family

Are too many individuals diverted from civil immigration adjudication? Each year, the government completes millions of diversions from civil immigration adjudication through explicit and implicit waivers, the expedited removal program and the increasing criminalization of immigration law.
By uncovering and analyzing this diversion phenomenon, this article exposes an important piece of the immigration adjudication problem that has been largely undiagnosed. While judges, scholars, government officials and practitioners have acknowledged serious problems within the civil immigration adjudication system, this article widens the view to incorporate the issue of whether too many are being sidetracked from the system altogether.
This article concludes …


Ripe Standing Vines And The Jurisprudential Tasting Of Matured Legal Wines – And Law & Bananas: Property And Public Choice In The Permitting Process, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2008

Ripe Standing Vines And The Jurisprudential Tasting Of Matured Legal Wines – And Law & Bananas: Property And Public Choice In The Permitting Process, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

From produce to wine, we only consume things when they are ready. The courts are no different. That concept of “readiness” is how courts address cases and controversies as well. Justiciability doctrines, particularly ripeness, have a particularly important role in takings challenges to permitting decisions. The courts largely hold that a single permit denial does not give them enough information to evaluate whether the denial is in violation of law. As a result of this jurisprudential reality, regulators with discretion have an incentive to use their power to extract rents from those that need their permission. Non-justiciability of permit denials …


The Unjust Exclusion Of Gay Sperm Donors: Litigation Strategies To End Discrimination In The Gene Pool, Luke A. Boso Dec 2007

The Unjust Exclusion Of Gay Sperm Donors: Litigation Strategies To End Discrimination In The Gene Pool, Luke A. Boso

Luke A. Boso

In May 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a final rule to be published in the Federal Register that would establish eligibility criteria for persons seeking to donate sperm and other human cells and tissues. Concurrently, the FDA issued a draft guidance document that provides recommendations for complying with the requirements, listing men who have had sex with another man in the preceding 5 years (MSMs) as the number one risk factor. The FDA does not, however, make a distinction between MSMs who practice safe sex and those who have unprotected sex, nor does it identify men who …


Squaring The Circle? Reconciling Sovereignty And Global Governance Through Global Government Networks (Review Of Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order), Kenneth Anderson Dec 2004

Squaring The Circle? Reconciling Sovereignty And Global Governance Through Global Government Networks (Review Of Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order), Kenneth Anderson

Kenneth Anderson

This book review summarizes and critiques A New World Order, offering both an internal critique of the argument's consistency as well as an outside critique of the argument from the standpoint of the value of democratic sovereignty. The review locates Slaughter's argument within the debate over international relations realism and idealism, and further locates it within a continuum of seven idealized positions in the debate between global governance and sovereignty, with pure sovereignty at one extreme and world government at the other, with the most relevant positions of democratic sovereignty and liberal internationalism located in the middle. The article concludes …


Alj Ethics: Conundrums, Dilemmas, And Paradoxes, John L. Gedid Dec 2001

Alj Ethics: Conundrums, Dilemmas, And Paradoxes, John L. Gedid

John L. Gedid

No abstract provided.


Modern Ethical Dilemmas For Aljs And Government Lawyers: Conflicts Of Interest, Appearances Of Impropriety, And Other Ethical Considerations, Introduction, Robert C. Power Dec 2001

Modern Ethical Dilemmas For Aljs And Government Lawyers: Conflicts Of Interest, Appearances Of Impropriety, And Other Ethical Considerations, Introduction, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

No abstract provided.


Rulemaking Developments, Robert C. Power Dec 1998

Rulemaking Developments, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

No abstract provided.


Administrative Law Progress In 1997: Selected Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions Involving Constitutional And Administrative Decisions, John L. Gedid Dec 1997

Administrative Law Progress In 1997: Selected Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions Involving Constitutional And Administrative Decisions, John L. Gedid

John L. Gedid

No abstract provided.


Administrative Law Progress In 1995: Important Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions, John L. Gedid Dec 1995

Administrative Law Progress In 1995: Important Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions, John L. Gedid

John L. Gedid

No abstract provided.


Integrating Theory With Practice, Robert C. Power Dec 1991

Integrating Theory With Practice, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

No abstract provided.


An Analysis And Explanation Of The Equal Access To Justice Act, Louise L. Hill Dec 1986

An Analysis And Explanation Of The Equal Access To Justice Act, Louise L. Hill

Louise L Hill

No abstract provided.


Help Is Sometimes Close At Hand: The Exhaustion Problem And The Ripeness Solution, Robert C. Power Dec 1986

Help Is Sometimes Close At Hand: The Exhaustion Problem And The Ripeness Solution, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

No abstract provided.


The Appropriateness And Design Of Categorical Decision-Making Systems, John J. Capowski Dec 1983

The Appropriateness And Design Of Categorical Decision-Making Systems, John J. Capowski

John J. Capowski

No abstract provided.


Accuracy And Consistency In Categorical Decision-Making: A Study Of Social Security's Medical-Vocational Guidelines─Two Birds With One Stone Or Pigeon-Holing Claimants?, John J. Capowski Dec 1982

Accuracy And Consistency In Categorical Decision-Making: A Study Of Social Security's Medical-Vocational Guidelines─Two Birds With One Stone Or Pigeon-Holing Claimants?, John J. Capowski

John J. Capowski

No abstract provided.