Deregulation Without Public Input Directive Heading Toward Litigation: Pillsbury
If federal regulatory agencies implement the White House's April 9 presidential memo direction and repeal regulations without obtaining public input (see 2504100067), "litigation is virtually assured," Pillsbury lawyers Reza Zarghamee, Amanda Halter and Jillian Marullo wrote Wednesday. They said the…
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directive relies on the Administrative Procedure Act's "good cause" exception to obtaining public input. Litigation challenging the memo and any deregulation stemming from it might not proceed uniformly, since there's a lack of consensus among federal courts on how to evaluate good-cause claims, they said. The divergence among various federal circuit courts raises the risk of inconsistent outcomes, they added. If multiple challenges are filed to the same regulatory appeal in multiple circuits, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation may consolidate them, and it could assign the matter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where de novo review would apply.