· 5/12/1981
Alberta Gas Chemicals, Ltd. v. Celanese Corporation and Celanese Chemical Company, Inc.
Citations
- 650 F.2d 9
- 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 13355
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- invoking “the power' of an administrative agency to insure the integrity of proceedings before it,” in action involving alleged perjured testimony in earlier ITC proceeding, -which had concluded
- “It is hard to imagine a clearer case for [the ITC] exercising this inherent power than when a fraud has been perpetrated on the tribunal in its initial proceeding.”
- “It is a well established principle that an administrative agency may reconsider its own decisions. ‘The power to reconsider is inherent in the power to decide.’ ”
- “[T]he [agency] will certainly be in a far better position than the ... court to determine whether it would have reached a different conclusion but for the [fraud].”
- “The public interest in preventing perjury is obvious.”
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Judges: 'Chief, Feinberg, Oakes, Motley
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