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Nonacquiescence: Outlaw Agencies, Imperial Courts, And The Perils Of Pluralism, Deborah Maranville
Nonacquiescence: Outlaw Agencies, Imperial Courts, And The Perils Of Pluralism, Deborah Maranville
Vanderbilt Law Review
American history has witnessed recurrent conflict between the judiciary and the executive or legislative branches of our government.' The conflict generates heated passions perhaps because it involves both significant struggles for power and fundamental views about the rule of law. New opportunities for conflict have arisen as the number of administrative agencies has grown. In the last decade, administrative agencies and the courts have engaged in a continuing controversy over whether agencies must follow lower court precedents. Although the controversy has touched a number of agencies at least peripherally, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) and the Social …