Notice & Comment

Author: Fred Halbhuber

Notice & Comment

The State-Law Origins of the APA’s “Set Aside” Power, by Fred Halbhuber

Section 706(2) of the APA provides, in deceptively simple language, that a “reviewing court shall . . . hold unlawful and set aside agency action, findings, and conclusions . . . not in accordance with law.” In the ongoing debate over the scope of relief under the APA, much depends on the “semantic content of the phrase ‘set aside.’” In a recent working […]