(JR is mechanism for enforcing procedural and substantive constraints on agency action
- Does statute grant right to review? – APA § 704 says then JR available
- Overton Park – presumption that limited judicial review is available
- just need “law to apply”
- agency must provide record (“hard look” at record)
- review is basically procedural
- compare – Israel – substantive review
- exceptions
- statutory preclusion
- explicit
- implicit – separation of powers grounds
- functional considerations (See Block – no actions for consumers since Congress authorized actions by dairy producers)
- doesn’t apply if challenging enabling act (Johnson v. Robinson)
- “committed to agency discretion by law” (§ 701)
- no law to apply
- statute says agency has final authority (Webster v. Doe)
- but still get review of constitutional questions
- prosecutorial discretion (Heckler v. Chaney – presumptively not reviewable)
- doesn’t apply to rulemaking (See American Horse Protection Assoc.)
- but failure to make rule is not same thing as denial (See Norton v. S. Utah Wilderness Society)
- beneficiary suits
- explicit cause of action (e.g., citizen suit provision in environmental statute)
- means person falls within zone of interests but still need to satisfy standing
- implicit
- Test (Cort. v. Ash)
- statute creates federal right in favor of P
- indication of legislative intent to create or deny remedy
- Is remedy consistent with underlying purposes of statute?
- Is COA specifically relegated to state law
- presumption against implied right of action (Alexander v. Sandoval) so need indication in statute
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