Tomorrow, Friday, December 6, 2019, the Justice Department will host a summit on modernizing the Administrative Procedure Act. It starts at 9AM, and can be livestreamed here. Here’s the description of the summit, from the Justice Department’s invitation: The summit will explore how the administrative state has developed in ways not foreseen by the Administrative […]

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On Friday, the Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State will host a day-long conference on “Technology, Innovation, and Regulation.” It’s an admittedly broad topic. What we have in mind are twin questions: How does regulation affect technological innovation? And how does technological innovation affect regulation? We’ll be focusing on specific issues regarding social […]

Welcome back to Ninth Circuit Review-Reviewed, your monthly recap of administrative law before arguably “the second most important court in the land.” Let’s get straight to last month’s cases. Chevron Step Negative Infinity Most judicial opinions follow a template. They start with an introduction, then move on to a section that lays out the “standard […]

Would LeBron James — one of the best basketball players of all time — be a good professional football player? Or, to a bit more realistic, had LeBron James never played basketball at all but instead had devoted himself to football, would he have thrived in the NFL? These are the sorts of questions that […]

Our blog exploded a couple of weeks ago when the president issued two new Executive Orders related to guidance. In about 24 hours we had four fine contributions, a testament to the blog’s deep bench: Breaking News: Two Major Executive Orders, Aaron Nielson The October 9 Executive Orders and Government Acquisition of Information, Bernard Bell […]

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week about whether the Trump Administration can unwind DACA, the Obama Administration’s policy of “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.”  Under the DACA program, the government invited large numbers of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as young children and met other criteria to apply for […]

The AALS Sections on Administrative Law and Legislation are pleased to announce their co-sponsored “New Voices in Administrative Law and Legislation” program for the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The New Voices program gives junior administrative law scholars and junior legislation scholars an opportunity to receive useful feedback on their work from more […]

The American Association of Law Schools annual meeting will be in Washington, DC, on January 2-5, 2020, and the early-bird registration deadline is November 14th. Law professors can register here. Here’s a look at the administrative law programming for this year’s annual meeting (full program here): Friday, January 3, 2020 Administering the 2017 Tax Act: […]

Separation-of-powers cases tend to be controversial. For instance, when the D.C. Circuit last addressed removal and initially concluded that Congress could not grant the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Director “for cause” protection, the United States argued that the panel had “set[] up what may be the most important separation-of-powers case in a generation.” What followed […]

For administrative law nerds like me, this is the best Halloween costume ever (from one of my students Sophia Mills):

In Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos, a class action lawsuit against the Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos for unlawful collection of student loans, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim on October 24 issued an order finding the defendants in civil contempt, and ordering them to pay $100,000 in sanctions, for enaging in collection activities in […]

Administrative law is generally conditioned on agency action. Notice and comment rulemaking mandates “the agency shall give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making.” 5 U.S.C. § 553(c). Chevron deference contemplates judicial consideration of “an agency’s construction of the statute which it administers,” and Auer deference requires judges to consider “the agency’s […]

From my inbox. We have a terrific lineup again this year, so definitely join us!    Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice     AMBAR.ORG     |      CAREER CENTER     |      MEMBERSHIP     |      CALENDAR     |      CLE     |   PUBLISHING      2019 Administrative Law Conference November 14-15, 2019 | Walter E. Washington Convention Center | Washington, DC   Don’t forget to register before Monday November […]

This short post will do two things. First, it will heap praise on Professor Parrillo’s article, Federal Agency Guidance and the Power to Bind: An Empirical Study of Agencies and Industries. This terrific and engaging work sheds valuable light on what it means, practically, for policy statements to be “practically binding.” One can reasonably hope […]