Kousar v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 5 U.S.C. § 555 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 6 U.S.C. § 271 · 8 U.S.C. § 1159 (§ 209 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (§ 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1571
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Norton Secretary of the Interior et al. v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance et al. · Telecommunications Research & Action Center v. Federal Communications Commission · Patel v. Reno
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) the time agencies take to make decisions must be governed by a “rule of reason”!;] (2) where Congress has provided a timetable or other indication of the speed with which it expects the agency to proceed in the enabling statute, that statutory scheme may supply content for this rule of reason [;] (3) delays that might be reasonable in the sphere of economic regulation are less tolerable when human health and welfare are at stake[;] (4) the court should consider the effect of expediting delayed action on agency activities of a higher or competing priority!;] (5) the court should also take into account the nature and extent of the interests prejudiced by delay!;] and (6) the court need not find any impropriety lurking behind agency lassitude in order to hold that agency action is unreasonably delayed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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