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Full-Text Articles in Administrative Law
Interlocal Power Roulette, Daniel B. Rosenbaum
Interlocal Power Roulette, Daniel B. Rosenbaum
Indiana Law Journal
Local governments inhabit a crowded ecosystem. Cities, counties, and school districts—and many more—share overlapping territorial jurisdictions. Overlapping jurisdiction goes hand-in-hand with redundant local power, defined as a scenario where multiple governments hold independent authority to take the exact same action in the exact same territorial space. In Maine, for example, state law empowers three local bodies to operate the same sewer infrastructure. In Detroit, two separate entities are equally tasked with managing the city’s streetlights. And in communities across the country, local governments are broadly authorized to own the same parcels of public land, including in Oakland, California, where public …
Patent Term Tailoring, Sarah Rajec
Patent Term Tailoring, Sarah Rajec
Indiana Law Journal
Patent rights are designed to encourage innovation with both the promise of a patent and with its expiration. Currently, patent term lasts from issuance until twenty years from the application date, with minor exceptions. The patent term is limited so that rewards for past invention do not overly hinder future progress. Although the goal is laudable, a uniform patent term is a blunt instrument to achieve such a nuanced balance. Historically, the patent system was not averse to tailoring terms through, for example, individually granted extensions to undercompensated inventors or term curtailment when a foreign patent holder failed to “work” …
Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts And Multistate Governance In An Era Of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, And Bad-Faith Partisanship, Jon Michaels, Emme M. Tyler
Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts And Multistate Governance In An Era Of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, And Bad-Faith Partisanship, Jon Michaels, Emme M. Tyler
Indiana Law Journal
Those committed to addressing the political, economic, and moral crises of the day— voting rights, racial justice, reproductive autonomy, gaping inequality, LGBTQ rights, and public health and safety—don’t know where to turn. Federal legislative and regulatory pathways are choked off by senators quick to filibuster and by judges eager to strike down agency rules and orders. State pathways, in turn, are compromised by limited capacity, collective action problems, externalities, scant economies of scale, and—in many jurisdictions—a toxic political culture hostile to even the most anodyne government interventions. Recognizing the limited options available on a binary (that is, federal or state) …
Situating Structural Challenges To Agency Authority Within The Framework Of The Finality Principle, Harold J. Krent
Situating Structural Challenges To Agency Authority Within The Framework Of The Finality Principle, Harold J. Krent
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Federal Reserve As Agent To Another Principal: Monetary Penalties 1997-2022, David Zaring
The Federal Reserve As Agent To Another Principal: Monetary Penalties 1997-2022, David Zaring
Indiana Law Journal
Enforcement is how agencies make policy, but the Federal Reserve Board, perhaps the country’s most important independent agency, and certainly its most important regulator of banks, does most of its enforcement in secret. This secrecy means that it is difficult for outside observers to see what the Fed is prioritizing. One exception to the secret sanction paradigm is the civil monetary penalty: once the Fed decides to fine a bank or a banker, no matter how small the amount, it must publicize the fine and the basis for it. We read twenty-five years’ worth of civil monetary penalty orders to …
Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability In Patent Law, Patrick R. Goold
Patent Accidents: Questioning Strict Liability In Patent Law, Patrick R. Goold
Indiana Law Journal
Accidental infringement of patent rights is a pervasive and growing problem in the Information Age. As IP rights proliferate and expand in scope, it is becoming increasingly easy for companies and individuals to inadvertently infringe patents. When such accidental infringement occurs, patent law holds the infringer strictly liable. This contrasts with many areas of tort law where defendants are only liable if they act negligently.
This Article questions the normative desirability of strict liability in patent law. Assuming the primary value of patent law is utilitarian, this Article poses the research question: what liability rule will maximize social welfare? This …
Taking Systemic Risk Seriously In Financial Regulation, Todd Henderson, James C. Spindler
Taking Systemic Risk Seriously In Financial Regulation, Todd Henderson, James C. Spindler
Indiana Law Journal
Bank regulation failed in the run up to the financial crisis of2008, as it has numerous times in the course of U.S. history. This is despite the existence of traditional prudential regulation, such as capital adequacy mandates, reserve requirements, and bank examination, as well as more common legal remedies, such as tort and contract litigation. Unsurprisingly, in the wake of these failures, many reforms have been proposed, and some adopted, to try to reduce bank risk taking. These reforms include limiting bank size, requiring bank managers to be paid differently, restricting investment in high-risk financial products, and, of course, tightening …
Don't Let The Facts Get In The Way Of The Truth: Revisiting How Buckhannon And Alyeska Pipeline Messed Up The American Rule, Landyn Wm. Rookard
Don't Let The Facts Get In The Way Of The Truth: Revisiting How Buckhannon And Alyeska Pipeline Messed Up The American Rule, Landyn Wm. Rookard
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
National Protection Of Student-Athlete Mental Health: The Case For Federal Regulation Over The National Collegiate Athletic Association, Jayce Born
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Dictation And Delegation In Securities Regulation, Usha Rodrigues
Dictation And Delegation In Securities Regulation, Usha Rodrigues
Indiana Law Journal
When Congress undertakes major financial reform, either it dictates the precise con-tours of the law itself or it delegates the bulk of the rule making to an administrative agency. This choice has critical consequences. Making the law self-executing in federal legislation is swift, not subject to administrative tinkering, and less vulnerable than rule making to judicial second-guessing. Agency action is, in contrast, deliberate, subject to ongoing bureaucratic fiddling, and more vulnerable than statutes to judicial challenge.
This Article offers the first empirical analysis of the extent of congressional delegation in securities law from 1970 to the present day, examining nine …
Congress, Tribal Recognition, And Legislative-Administrative Multiplicity, Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Congress, Tribal Recognition, And Legislative-Administrative Multiplicity, Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Indiana Law Journal
Most descriptions of federal recognition by political scientists, anthropologists, and legal scholars focus on an administrative process run by the Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA) within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). To the extent that scholars discuss the role of Congress in recognizing Indian nations, they suggest that it plays a diminishing one. In fact, this misconception pervades the field. Most scholars assume that Congress has largely ceded control over the recognition of Indian nations to the BIA.
This discrepancy begs the question: Who has it right? Hollywood screenwriters or the academic experts? The answer to this question matters …
Filling The D.C. Circuit Vacancies, Carl W. Tobias
Filling The D.C. Circuit Vacancies, Carl W. Tobias
Indiana Law Journal
Partisanship undermines judicial nominations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. With three of eleven judgeships vacant during Barack Obama’s first term, he was the only President in a half century not to appoint a jurist to the nation’s second-most important court. Confirming accomplished nominees, thus, became imperative for the circuit’s prompt, economical, and fair case disposition. In 2013, Obama submitted excellent candidates. Patricia Millett had argued thirty-two Supreme Court appeals; Cornelia Pillard successfully litigated numerous path-breaking matters; and Robert Wilkins had served on the D.C. District bench for three years. The purportedly shrinking tribunal …
The Government’S Lies And The Constitution, Helen L. Norton
The Government’S Lies And The Constitution, Helen L. Norton
Indiana Law Journal
The government’s lies can be devastating. This is the case, for example, of its lies told to resist legal and political accountability for its misconduct; to inflict economic and reputational harm; or to enable the exercise of its powers to imprison, to deploy lethal force, and to commit precious national resources. On the other hand, the government’s lies can sometimes be helpful: consider lies told to thwart a military adversary or to identify wrongdoing through undercover police work. The substantial harms threatened by some government lies invite a search for ways to punish and prevent them. At the same time, …
Zoning As Taxidermy: Neighborhood Conservation Districts And The Regulation Of Aesthetics, Anika S. Lemar
Zoning As Taxidermy: Neighborhood Conservation Districts And The Regulation Of Aesthetics, Anika S. Lemar
Indiana Law Journal
Over the last thirty years, municipalities across the country have embraced neighborhood conservation districts, regulations that impose design standards at the neighborhood level. Despite their adoption in thirty-five states, in municipalities from Boise to Cambridge, neighborhood conservation districts have evaded critical analysis by legal scholars. By regulating features such as architectural style, roof angle, and maximum eave overhang, conservation districts purport to protect “neighborhood character” or “cultural stability.” Implicit in these regulations is the unsupported assumption that the essential feature of a neighborhood’s character is its architectural design at a single point in time. The unfortunate result is zoning as …
Superstatute Theory And Administrative Common Law, Kathryn E. Kovacs
Superstatute Theory And Administrative Common Law, Kathryn E. Kovacs
Indiana Law Journal
This Article employs William Eskridge and John Ferejohn’s theory of superstatutes as a tool to argue that administrative common law that contradicts or ignores the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is illegitimate. Eskridge and Ferejohn conceive of statutes that emerge from a lengthy, public debate and take on great normative weight over time as “superstatutes.” Superstatute theory highlights the deficiency in deliberation about the meaning of the APA. The APA bears all the hallmarks of a superstatute. Unlike the typical federal superstatute, however, the APA is not administered by a single agency. Thus, to respect and encourage the civic-republican style of …
Duty To Defend And The Rule Of Law, Gregory F. Zoeller
Duty To Defend And The Rule Of Law, Gregory F. Zoeller
Indiana Law Journal
This Article challenges Eric Holder’s and William Pryor’s views and explains the proper role of a state attorney general when a party challenges a state statute. In short, an attorney general owes the state and its citizens, as sovereign, a duty to defend its statutes against constitutional attack except when controlling precedent so overwhelmingly shows that the statute is unconstitutional that no good-faith argument can be made in its defense. To exercise discretion more broadly, and selectively to pick and choose which statutes to defend, only erodes the rule of law. (introduction)
Reforming The Regulation Of Community, Tanya D. Marsh
Reforming The Regulation Of Community, Tanya D. Marsh
Indiana Law Journal
The regulatory framework for financial institutions in the United States imposes significant costs on community banks without providing benefits to consumers or the economy that justify those costs. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act builds on decades of “one-size-fits-all” regulation of financial institutions, an ill-conceived regulatory strategy that puts community banks at a competitive disadvantage as compared with their larger, more complex competitors. The imposition of regulatory burdens on community banks without attendant benefits ultimately harms both consumers and the economy by (1) forcing community banks to consolidate or go out of business, furthering the concentration of …
The Increasing Weight Of Regulation: Countries Combat The Global Obesity Epidemic, Allyn L. Taylor, Emily Whelan Parento, Laura A. Schmidt
The Increasing Weight Of Regulation: Countries Combat The Global Obesity Epidemic, Allyn L. Taylor, Emily Whelan Parento, Laura A. Schmidt
Indiana Law Journal
Obesity is a global epidemic, exacting an enormous human and economic toll. In the absence of a comprehensive global governance strategy, states have increasingly employed a wide array of legal strategies targeting the drivers of obesity. This Article identifies recent global trends in obesity-related legislation and makes the normative case for an updated global governance strategy.
National governments have responded to the epidemic both by strengthening traditional interventions and by developing novel legislative strategies. This response consists of nine important trends: (1) strengthened and tailored tax measures; (2) broadened use of counter-advertising and health campaigns; (3) expanded food labeling; (4) …
Should Chevron Have Two Steps?, Richard M. Re
Should Chevron Have Two Steps?, Richard M. Re
Indiana Law Journal
Prominent judges and scholars have criticized the familiar Chevron deference scheme on the ground that its two steps are redundant. But each step of traditional two-step Chevron actually does unique interpretive work. In short, step one asks whether agency interpretations are mandatory, whereas step two asks whether they are reasonable. Other judges and scholars defend two-step Chevron on the ground that the second step should be equated with arbitrary-and-capricious review. But that approach makes Chevron partially redundant with the Administrative Procedure Act and compresses the distinct mandatoriness and reasonableness questions into an artificially singular first step. This Article identifies a …
Regulating The Corporate Tap: Applying Global Administrative Law Principles To Achieve The Human Right To Water, Kristin L. Retherford
Regulating The Corporate Tap: Applying Global Administrative Law Principles To Achieve The Human Right To Water, Kristin L. Retherford
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Regulation, Renegotiation, And Reform: Improving Transnational Public-Private Partnerships In The Wake Of The Gulf Oil Spill, John J. Mckinlay
Regulation, Renegotiation, And Reform: Improving Transnational Public-Private Partnerships In The Wake Of The Gulf Oil Spill, John J. Mckinlay
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Bank Capital Regulation By Enforcement: An Empirical Study, Julie A. Hill
Bank Capital Regulation By Enforcement: An Empirical Study, Julie A. Hill
Indiana Law Journal
Improving commercial bank capital requirements has been a top priority on the regulatory agenda since the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis. Unfortunately, some of the information necessary to make informed decisions about capital regulation has been missing. Existing regulations establish numerical capital requirements. Regulators, however, have significant discretion to set higher capital requirements for individual banks. In considering necessary reforms, regulators often focus on specific numerical requirements but sometimes ignore enforcement efforts. Without clear information about capital enforcement, it is impossible to make informed judgments about the current capital regulation system.
This Article provides a more complete picture of …
Judicial Review Of Public Utility Commissions, Jonathan Armiger
Judicial Review Of Public Utility Commissions, Jonathan Armiger
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Beyond Chemicals: The Lessons That Toxic Substance Regulatory Reform Can Learn From Nanotechnology, Scott Bomkamp
Beyond Chemicals: The Lessons That Toxic Substance Regulatory Reform Can Learn From Nanotechnology, Scott Bomkamp
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Preemption In Green Marketing: The Case For Uniform Federal Marketing Definitions, Robert B. White
Preemption In Green Marketing: The Case For Uniform Federal Marketing Definitions, Robert B. White
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Failure Of Adversarial Process In The Administrative State, Bryan T. Camp
The Failure Of Adversarial Process In The Administrative State, Bryan T. Camp
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Maintaining Government Accountability: Calls For A "Public Use" Beyond Eminent Domain, Gregory S. Knapp
Maintaining Government Accountability: Calls For A "Public Use" Beyond Eminent Domain, Gregory S. Knapp
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Forward, John S. Applegate, Robert L. Fischman
Forward, John S. Applegate, Robert L. Fischman
Indiana Law Journal
Scientific information has become a centralr ationalef or environmental regulation, and scientific uncertainty is viewed as a major obstacle in developing, justifying, and enforcing environmental laws and policies. In the context of environmental regulation, scientific information may be analyzed as subject to both supply and demand. A regulatory system that supplies more scientific information than it demands can operate effectively to impose protective regulation. By contrast, a system that demands more information than it supplies will face a "data gap "and will fail to accomplish its protective goals. The data gap can be addressed by applying regulatory techniques that increase …
The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office's Proposed Information Disclosure Statement Rules: Too Novel And Nonobvious, Russell S. Magaziner
The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office's Proposed Information Disclosure Statement Rules: Too Novel And Nonobvious, Russell S. Magaziner
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Of Rules And Standards: Reconciling Statutory Limitations On "Arising Under" Jurisdiction, Richard D. Freer
Of Rules And Standards: Reconciling Statutory Limitations On "Arising Under" Jurisdiction, Richard D. Freer
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.