American Federation of Government Employees, Afl-Cio v. John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture

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• holding that the good cause exception was satisfied because a previous preliminary injunction issued against the agency had made its prior guidelines “null and void[,]” and would have required the agency to rely on “antiquated guidelines” in the meantime
• finding that the agency had good cause to issue emergency regulations in response to a court order
• discussing the two notice requirements of § 553 and their exceptions
• sudden need for new regulations pursuant to court injunction, where regulations provide necessary guidance to poultry industry and serious economic harm would result from absence of guidance constituted good cause
• “promulgation of emergency regulations by the Department was a reasonable and perhaps inevitable response to” an injunctive court order that required almost immediate changes in the relevant regulatory program
• use of antiquated guidelines would have caused economic harm and disruption to poultry processors, and might have resulted in poultry shortages or increased consumer prices

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).