LEGL 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rulemaking, Precedent, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
12 Jan 2017
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Administrative agencies: the boards, bureaus, commissions, and organizations that make up the governmental bureaucracy. Goals of providing expertise, protection, regulation, and services. Rule-making authority; these bureaus have the ability to create laws. Congress says they want a specific rule to be created (without specifics), then delgate a bureau to find the specifics and create a law to satisfy congress. Ex: congress wants to reduce pollution, and delegates this responsibility to the epa. Epa does research to balance economic costs with a healthier level of pollution to create a law, then presents findings to public. Epa then looks through all comments received and decides whether or not to edit proposal and go through process again, presenting new proposal. (can repeat many times) 1) congress improperly delgated a law-making power to an agency that was not qualified. 2) if the agency exceeds its authority and creates a law they were not authorized to make.
