Atx, Inc. v. United States Department of Transportation, International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers, Intervenors

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• recognizing that legislative hearings not focusing directly on the decisionmakers and the merits of the case did not invalidate the agency decision
• recognizing that legislative hearings not focusing directly on the decisionmakers and the merits of the case did not invalidate the agency decision
• holding that political pressure is only concerning when it “shapes the agency’s determination of the merits” of a decision
• holding that political pressure is only concerning when it \shapes the agency's determination of the merits\ of a decision
• observing that the Secretary of Transportation’s decision to order a full-evidentiary hearing was “unobjectionable;” indeed, it “was an appropriate response to [congressional] pressure”
• stating that “judicial evaluation of the pressure must focus on the nexus between the pressure and the actual decision maker” and “congressional actions not targeted directly at the decisionmakers ... do not invalidate an agency decision”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).