ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, Fall 2003 ver. 1.0 (Aug. 27)
Date Pages Topic; main cases
-WEEK 1--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter I - Nature and Function of Agencies
8/20 1-18 A. What is Administrative Law?
-WEEK 2--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8/25 18-45 B. Legislative Control. Delegation; American Trucking
8/27 45-64 Legislative Veto; Chadha
64-81 Line-Item Veto; Clinton v. New York
-WEEK 3--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9/1 Labor Day Holiday, no class
9/3 82-98 C. Executive Control: Appointment and Removal; Buckley; Myers; Humphrey’s Executor; Bowsher
9/5 makeup 98-117 Appointment and Removal; Morrison v. Olson
117-127 Supervision (Skim lightly only)
127-132 Control within Agencies
-WEEK 4--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter II - Standards of Judicial Review
9/8 133-151 A. Standards of Review generally; Overton Park
9/10 151-179 B. Standard of Review on Issues of Law; Chevron;
FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco
-WEEK 5--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9/15 179-197 C. Standard of Review on Issues of Fact or Policy: "Substantial Evidence" Test, "Formal Adjudications"; Universal Camera
9/17 197-232 Review of Issues of Fact or Policy: Can "Substantial Evidence" Be Used in "Informal Rulemaking"?; Benzene
Review of Fact or Policy as "Arbitrary or Capricious"; State Farm; and Judicial Remedies
-WEEK 6--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter III - Availability of Judicial Review
9/22 233-255 A. Jurisdiction and B. Reviewability - Preclusion; Gott, McNary
9/24 255-267 Reviewability - Committed to Agency Discretion; Webster, Vigil, and review of Overton Park
267-285 Prosecutorial Discretion; Bachowski, Heckler
-WEEK 7--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9/29 285-298 C. Standing to Sue; Data Processing
handout Standing in other countries
10/1 298-327 Standing; Injury, Causation, Traceability;
Lujan
10/3 makeup 328-347 D. Timing of Judicial Review. Ripeness;
Abbott Labs, Toilet Goods
347-353 Exhaustion; Myers, McCarthy, Darby
-WEEK 8-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter IV - Policy Formation 1 – Rulemaking and Adjudication
10/6 361-387 A. Policymaking Instruments; Through Rulemaking; Petroleum Refiners
10/8 387-416 Policy-making through Adjudication; Excelsior; Wyman-Gordon, Bell-Aerospace, Morton v. Ruiz
-WEEK 9-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/13 Catch-up or slow-down?
Chapter IV - Policy Formation 2 - Rulemaking
10/15 416-429 B. Public Participation in Rulemaking; Choc. Manufacturers
438#3-454 Record, political influence; Sierra Club
-WEEK 10------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10/20 454-469 Impartiality; Ass’n of Nat’l Advertisers v. FTC
469-485 Hybrid Rulemaking; Vermont Yankee
10/22 486-507 Sec. 553 exemptions; Family Planning; Hoctor, Lincoln v. Vigil
508-522 C. Negotiated Rulemaking
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11/3 522-535 D. Analytical Basis. Cost-Benefit Analysis
546-561 Regulatory Impact Statements, NEPA
Chapter V - Adjudication
11/5 563-566 A. Authority for Agency Adjudication
633-649 B. Neutral Decisionmaker
-WEEK 12------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11/10 8:30 am 649-666 C. Statutory Hearing Rights; Portland Audubon
666-679 Independence of Adjudicators, Separation of Functions; Ass’n of Admin. Law Judges
679-688 Rules Constraining Adjudications; Campbell
Chapter VI - Enforcement
11/12 689-692 A. Enforcement Overview
724-737 B-1. Enforcement Discretion; Moog, Universal-Rundle
738-746 B-2. Private Enforcement: Citizen Suits
-WEEK 13------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11/17 746-768 B-3. Implied Rights of Action; Borak; Cort v. Ash; Karahalios
768-792 B-4. Preemption; Silkwood; Geier v. American Honda
Chapter IX - Public Access to Government
11/19 885-886 Introduction to “Indirect Controls
965-992 A. Freedom of Information; Kissinger, Sears
-WEEK 14------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11/24 1002-1013 FOIA and Privacy; Reporters Committee
11/26 1013-1027 B. Open Meetings; ITT, Common Cause
-WEEK 15------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
12/1 Review
12/3 -- Review (Last Class)
Prof. John E. Bonine, jebonine@law.uoregon.edu;
class list: adminlaw@law.uoregon.edu