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Recent Cases, Cornelia H. Boozman, R. Preston Bolt, Jr., Kenneth L. Stewart
Recent Cases, Cornelia H. Boozman, R. Preston Bolt, Jr., Kenneth L. Stewart
Vanderbilt Law Review
Administrative Law--Ripeness--Agency Head's Informal Opinion Letters Held Unripe for Review When No Substantial Hardship Placed on Parties
Cornelia H. Boozman
The basic premise of the ripeness doctrine is that judicial machinery should operate only on concrete problems that are present or imminent, not on problems that are abstract, hypothetical,or remote... The Supreme Court articulated a more definitive standard for determining ripeness in "Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner." Espousing what it considered to be the basic rationale of the ripeness doctrine, avoidance of premature adjudication of discretionary administrative policies, the Court established a procedure for evaluating the ripeness issue in challenges to …