The APA
Alphabet Soup
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The ALR & Professor Popper
100

What year was the Administrative Procedure Act signed into law?

1946

100

This independent agency was created by Congress in 1974 to investigate and adjudicate unfair labor practices and oversee collective bargaining rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

What is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?

100

Who wrote the majority opinion in Loper Bright v. Raimondo?

John Roberts

100

What rule provides abbreviations for Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations?

T6

100

Professor Popper served in Vietnam under this branch of the military.

The United States Marine Corps

200

Which President signed the APA into law?

Harry S. Truman

200

What was the first federal agency?

Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the U.S. Department of State)

200

Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Assn. of the U.S. Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (1983) outlined this important standard in administrative law.

Arbitrary and capricious

200

Which citation signal is used when the cited authority directly contradicts the proposition stated in your text?

Contra

200

What was the name of the ALR's predecessor at WCL?

Administrative Law Journal of American University

300

Under the APA, this type of rulemaking generally requires an agency to publish a proposed rule and allow the public to submit comments.

What is notice-and-comment rulemaking?

300

Created in 1887, this independent agency was the first federal regulatory commission and originally regulated the railroads.

What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?

300

What position was Myers removed from in Myers v. United States?

Postmaster of the First Class at Portland, Oregon

300

Can the short-form citation id. be used when referring to a statute cited immediately preceding in the same footnote or previous footnote?

Yes, as long as the immediately preceding FN is the exact same statutory section and subsection

300

What year was the ALR founded?

1948

400

This exception to notice-and-comment requirements applies when an agency determines that notice and public procedure are “impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.”

What is the good-cause exception?

400

Which President created the Department of Justice?

Ulysses S. Grant

400

In this Supreme Court case, the Court held that the President has broad discretion to suspend the entry of aliens or classes of aliens whenever their entry is deemed detrimental to the interests of the United States.

What is Trump v. Hawaii (aka the Muslim Ban case)

400

When citing the United States Code, when is it necessary to include the year of the code edition in parentheses at the end of the citation?

Only when citing a code edition or supplement other than the current official code year.

400

Professor Popper once worked for this now defunct agency.

What is the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)?

500

This APA provision generally requires courts to set aside agency action that is “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”

What is Section 706?

500

The federal register lists 451 agencies of the federal government. How many of those are now defunct or obsolete?

75

500

Name 3 recent Supreme Court cases that cited ALR.

Chiles v. Salazar; Learning Resources v. Trump; FCC v. Consumers' Research; Bondi v. Vanderstok; Loper Bright v. Raimondo; Biden v. Nebraska; West Virginia v. EPA; Buffington v. McDonough; DHS v. Regents of University of California; Biestek v. Berryhill; Paul v. US; Kisor v. Wilkie

500

If multiple sources state or support the same proposition, but only one is directly cited with an accompanying discussion, which introductory signal is used for the additional supporting authorities?

Accord

500

What year did Professor Popper begin teaching at WCL?

1978