Legislation and Regulation

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1 Legislation and Regulation Professor Bagley Winter Term 2018 Welcome to Legislation and Regulation. The class will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00-2:15 and on Wednesday from 1:20-2:35 in 1225 South Hall. Computers and tablets are not permitted. My office is in 3238 South Hall, and my office hours will be every Thursday from 2:30 to 4:30. Before 3:30, I will give priority to you; after 3:30, I will give priority to students enrolled in my upper-level Administrative Law course. I encourage you to come to office hours in the earlier window. You can also reach me at nbagley@umich.edu. The readings will come principally from LISA SCHULTZ BRESSMAN ET AL., THE REGULATORY STATE (2d ed. 2013). Readings outside the casebook (CB) will be posted on the course s Canvas website. Canvas also contains two important appendices omitted from this edition of the casebook: the U.S. Constitution and the selected provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Every student should be prepared to discuss all of the assigned reading for each class meeting. Each discrete subsection on the syllabus below corresponds with the reading for a given class. On January 11, for example, we ll do the reading under Intro; for the 16th, I.A; for the 17th, I.B; and so on and so forth. If you are unprepared for a particular class, please me before class begins. I am assigning four exercises over the course of the semester. The exercises are similar to questions you re likely to see on the exam, and we ll go over them in some detail in class. Your responses will be due at 10pm on the evening before the class for which the exercises are assigned I will send along a Box address to which you can send them. I will be canceling class on Tuesday, January 30. I will schedule a review session during the reading period to make up for it. 1

2 Introduction: Why Regulate? CB 1-4. CB (Roche v. Buick Motor). Part I: Legislation and Statutory Interpretation. A. The Legislative Process. CB CB Excerpt from JERRY L. MASHAW, GREED, CHAOS, AND GOVERNANCE (1997). Excerpt from William N. Eskridge, Vetogates, Chevron, Preemption, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV (2008). B. An Example: Auto Safety CB As you read the 1966 Motor Vehicle Safety Act, use your judgment to identify the crucial provisions of the statutory text. C. Introduction to Statutory Interpretation. i. CB Excerpt from Riggs v. Palmer, 22 N.E. 188 (N.Y. 1889). Exercise #1: Vehicles in the Park CB (Holy Trinity). D. Textualism. i. Attitude Toward the Text. CB Excerpt from King v. Burwell, 576 U.S. (2015). Excerpt from United States v. Marshall, 908 F.2d 1312 (7th Cir. 1990) (en banc). Ordinary Meaning. CB (Nix, Muscarello). i Semantic Canons of Construction, Part I. CB iv. Semantic Canons of Construction, Part II. CB Exercise #2: Nunchuks and Shotguns. v. Semantic Canons of Construction, Part III. CB Excerpt from TVA v. Hill, 437 U.S. 153 (1978). 2

3 vi. Substantive Canons, Part I. CB (Locke). Excerpt from Green v. Bock Laundry Machine Company, 490 U.S. 504 (1989). v Substantive Canons, Part II. CB (Santos, Zadvydas). CB E. Legislative Intent and Purpose. i. The Debate Over Legislative History. CB CB (Scalia). Excerpt from Blanchard v. Bergeron, 489 U.S. 87 (1989). Excerpt from In re Sinclair, 870 F.2d 1340 (7th Cir. 1989). Legislative History in Application. CB (Moore and Montana Wilderness) F. Changed Circumstances. CB (Posner). Excerpt from In re Erickson, 815 F.2d 1090 (7th Cir. 1987). Exercise #3: Women Jurors. G. Dynamic Interpretation. CB (Aleinikoff). CB (Bob Jones). H. Stare Decisis and Statutory Precedent. Excerpt from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992). Excerpt from Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972). CB (Leegin). Part II: Agency Administration of Statutes. A. The Administrative State: An Introduction CB 1-11 OSHA Materials. B. The Relationship Between Agencies and Congress. i. Nondelegation Doctrine, Part I. CB Excerpt from A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 496 (1935). Excerpt from the Benzene case, 488 U.S. 607 (1980). 3

4 i Nondelegation Doctrine, Part II. Excerpt from Whitman v. American Trucking Ass ns, Inc., 531 U.S. 457 (2001). CB Legislative Control over Agencies. CB (congressional control) CB (Chadha). C. The Relationship Between Agencies and the President. i. Appointment and Removal, Part I. CB (Myers). CB CB CB i iv. Appointment and Removal, Part II. CB (Humphrey s Executor, Morrison v. Olson). Appointment and Removal, Part III. CB (PCAOB). Alternative Tools of Presidential Control: OIRA. Excerpt from Nicholas Bagley & Richard L. Revesz, Centralized Oversight of the Administrative State, 106 COLUM. L. REV (2006). Excerpt from Cass R. Sunstein, The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Myths and Realities, 126 HARV. L. REV (2013). Excerpt from Lisa Heinzerling, Inside EPA, 31 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 325 (2014). v. Alternative Tools of Presidential Control, Cost-Benefit Analysis. CB Exercise #4: Arsenic Rule D. The Administrative Procedures Act: An Intro to Rulemaking and Adjudication. Administrative Procedure Act (APA) 551, 553, 554, 556, 557. CB CB CB

5 Part III: Judicial Oversight of the Administrative Process. A. Judicial Review of Agency Policy. i. The Legal Framework. APA 706. Additional excerpt of United States Nova Scotia Food Products, 568 F.2d 240 (2d Cir. 1977). Excerpt of Williamson v. Lee Optical, 348 US 483 (1955). Excerpt from Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe, 401 U.S. 402 (1971). CB i Airbags Case Study. CB (skim). CB (State Farm). Chenery. Excerpt from SEC v. Chenery Corp., 318 U.S. 80 (1943) (Chenery I). Excerpt from SEC v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194 (1947) (Chenery II). B. Judicial Review of Agency Fact-finding. CB (Allentown Mack). C. Judicial Review of Agency Inaction. CB (Heckler v. Chaney). Excerpt from Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007). APA 701 & 706. D. Judicial Review of Questions of Law. i. The Chevron Framework, Part I. CB (Skidmore). CB (Chevron). i The Chevron Framework, Part II. CB (MCI). The Chevron Framework, Part III. CB (Brown & Williamson). Exercise #5: TBA. iv. Chevron Step Zero, Part I. CB (Mead, Barnhart). v. Chevron Step Zero, Part II. CB (Barnhart). 5

6 E. (TIME PERMITTING) Availability of Judicial Review. i. Standing, Part I. Excerpt from Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992). Excerpt from Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs., 528 U.S. 167 (2000). Standing, Part II. CB (Massachusetts v. EPA). 6