Irregularity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 344 U.S. 33 - United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · 1952Most cited · 3,114 citing opinions
administrative proceedings
the defect in the examiner's appointment was an irregularity which would invalidate a resulting order if the Commission had overruled an appropriate objection made during the hearings. But it is not one which deprives the Commission of power or jurisdiction, so that even in the absence of timely objection its order should be set aside as a nullity.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Irregularity”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Irregularity” — 3,728 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1952–1989
the "[q]uality or state of not conforming to rule or law," Webster's Second International Dictionary (1950), and in the present context the word must surely refer to the rules established by the Convention, including the notice requirement.