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Differentiating Legislative From Nonlegislative Rules: An Empirical And Qualitative Analysis, Nadav D. Ben Zur
Differentiating Legislative From Nonlegislative Rules: An Empirical And Qualitative Analysis, Nadav D. Ben Zur
Fordham Law Review
The elusive distinction between legislative rules and nonlegislative rules has frustrated courts, motivated voluminous scholarly debate, and ushered in a flood of litigation against administrative agencies. In the absence of U.S. Supreme Court guidance on the proper demarcating line, circuit courts have adopted various tests to ascertain a rule’s proper classification. This Note analyzes all 241 cases in which a circuit court has used one or more of the enunciated tests to differentiate legislative from nonlegislative rules. These opinions come from every one of the thirteen circuits and span the period of the early 1950s through 2018. This Note identifies …