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Agency Adjudication And Judicial Nondelegation: An Article Iii Canon, Mila Sohoni
Agency Adjudication And Judicial Nondelegation: An Article Iii Canon, Mila Sohoni
Northwestern University Law Review
The rules governing judicial review of adjudication by federal agencies are insensitive to a critical separation of powers principle. Article III jurisprudence requires different treatment of agency adjudication depending on whether the agency is adjudicating a “private right” or a “public right.” When agencies adjudicate private rights, review of the agency adjudication must be available to an Article III court on a direct appellate basis. In contrast, Article III jurisprudence does not require review to an Article III court on a direct appellate basis of agency adjudications of purely public rights. That means that federal courts reviewing agency adjudications of …