Public Institutions/Administrative Law - Fall 2022

Section 3 . 6 . 1

8 minutes

Limits on Judicial Addition of Procedures

Natalie Gomez-Velez

Vermont Yankee stands for the proposition that courts may not add procedural reqruirments to agencies beyond those Congress requires either in the agency's governing statute or the APA.

As you read Vermont Yankee, consider how it squares with judicial interpretations of the APA that we have studied regarding rulemaking.

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