Edward Ober’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute Marshall · Alabama Power Co. v. Costle · United States v. Alcan Aluminum Corp. · Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Most-quoted passages
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“concern itself with trifling matters, and this principle has often found application in the administrative context. Courts should be reluctant to apply the literal terms of a statute to mandate pointless expenditures of effort... The ability ... to exempt de minimis situations from a statutory command is not an ability to depart from the statute, but rather a tool to be used in implementing the legislative design.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nless [EPA] describes the standard under which [it] has arrived at this conclusion, supported by a plausible explanation, we have no basis for exercising our responsibility to determine whether [EPA's] decision is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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