The Eleventh Circuit decided three administrative law cases of note in September. First, the court held that the structure of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council violated the Appointments Clause, but the plaintiffs were not entitled to vacatur of the challenged rule. Second, the court denied a stay of non-monetary sanctions imposed on President […]
The Eleventh Circuit decided six administrative law cases of note during August. This post will focus on three of them, all of which happen to involve transportation. The court vacated the Department of Transportation’s order ending approval of a joint venture between Delta Air Lines and Aerovias de Mexico because the agency arbitrarily departed from […]
The Eleventh Circuit decided two administrative law cases of note in July. In the first, it rejected Florida’s constitutional challenges to the Department of Education’s use of private educational accreditors. In the second, the Eleventh Circuit sided with the IRS in a taxpayer’s challenge to the agency’s rejection of a deduction. Constitutional Challenges to Private […]
In June, a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit deepened a circuit split on a jurisdictional issue in immigration law. Judge Brasher, joined by Chief Judge Pryor, agreed with the Ninth Circuit and held that a court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to review the denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) unless the immigrant petitions […]
The Eleventh Circuit decided one administrative law case of note in the second half of May. In Citadel Securities LLC v. SEC, a panel of Judges Rosenbaum, Lagoa, and Marcus unanimously denied a petition for review of the SEC’s approval of a new options exchange under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Among other things, the […]
This post begins a new series reviewing the administrative law decisions of the Eleventh Circuit. The Eleventh Circuit is the third-busiest federal court of appeals, and it hears cases from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Over the past two weeks, the court decided three cases of note. First, it vacated an injunction against the construction of a detention […]