Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Assoc. of the United States, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co.
463 U.S. 29 (1983) Cited 6,628 times 50 Legal AnalysesHolding that " `settled course of behavior embodies the agency's informed judgment that, by pursuing that course, it will carry out the policies [of applicable statutes or regulations]'"
Camp v. Pitts
411 U.S. 138 (1973) Cited 1,961 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that "the focal point for judicial review" of whether agency action is arbitrary and capricious "should be the administrative record already in existence, not some new record made initially in the reviewing court"
Burlington Truck Lines v. U.S.
371 U.S. 156 (1962) Cited 1,944 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding a rule invalid under the APA where "the Commission made no findings specifically directed to the choice between two vastly different remedies with vastly different consequences to the carriers and the public . . . [and failed to] articulate any rational connection between the facts found and the choice made"
James Madison Ltd., by Hecht v. Ludwig
82 F.3d 1085 (D.C. Cir. 1996) Cited 679 timesHolding that the right to due process did not require a hearing before the government seized banks and allowed the FDIC to liquidate the banks
Mead Data Cent., v. U.S. Dept. of Air Force
566 F.2d 242 (D.C. Cir. 1977) Cited 1,200 timesHolding that attorney-client privilege is consistent with exemption contained in section 552(b) of the FOIA
Senate of Puerto Rico v. U.S. Dept of Justice
823 F.2d 574 (D.C. Cir. 1987) Cited 490 timesHolding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in permitting the Government to invoke other FOIA exemptions after its initial reliance on 7 "collapse[d]," and leaving open the question of whether the conclusion of law-enforcement proceedings constitutes a "substantial change in the factual context of the case" sufficient to invoke an appellate court's section 2106 discretion to remand
Greater Boston Television Corp. v. F.C.C
444 F.2d 841 (D.C. Cir. 1970) Cited 714 times 1 Legal AnalysesHolding that under the arbitrary and capricious standard, a court cannot "upset a decision because of errors that are not material"
U.S. v. Chen
99 F.3d 1495 (9th Cir. 1996) Cited 215 times 2 Legal AnalysesHolding that the government's error in submitting potentially privileged material with an ex parte application for Zolin crime-fraud determination was harmless because the district judge explicitly disregarded the allegedly privileged materials
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Costle
657 F.2d 275 (D.C. Cir. 1981) Cited 325 timesHolding that CWA "assigned secondary priority to the standards and placed primary emphasis upon both a point source discharge permit program and federal technology-based effluent limitations."
Motley v. Marathon Oil Co.
71 F.3d 1547 (10th Cir. 1995) Cited 209 timesHolding that district court did not abuse its discretion when it concluded that plaintiff had not made the prima facie showing required to invoke the crime-fraud exception because plaintiff "at most offered some evidence of race-based decisions" made by defendant in carrying out a reduction-in-force but "offered no evidence that the two documents in issue were prepared in furtherance of a crime or fraud"
Section 1701 - Congressional declaration of policy
43 U.S.C. § 1701 Cited 543 times 3 Legal AnalysesHolding that plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded prudential standing as to the FLPMA due only to their "aesthetic and "recreational interest" in land
Section 23 - Length of claims on veins or lodes
30 U.S.C. § 23 Cited 74 timesProviding that "no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located"
Section 42 - Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
30 U.S.C. § 42 Cited 28 timesAllowing the United States to issue patents for profitable mining claims