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Judicial Deference To Administrative Agencies And Its Limits, Graham G. Martin, David A. Super
Judicial Deference To Administrative Agencies And Its Limits, Graham G. Martin, David A. Super
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Reprocessing Vermont Yankee, Jack M. Beermann, Gary S. Lawson
Reprocessing Vermont Yankee, Jack M. Beermann, Gary S. Lawson
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In Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519 (1978), the Supreme Court unanimously and stridently chastised the D.C. Circuit for forcing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to employ procedures such as discovery and cross-examination in a notice-and-comment rulemaking when no organic statute, regulation, or constitutional provision required it. Vermont Yankee is almost universally regarded as one of the most important administrative law decisions issued by the Supreme Court. For the past three decades, various scholars, most notably Paul Verkuil and Richard Pierce, have been anticipating, and urging, a "Vermont Yankee II," in which the Court would similarly invalidate …