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· 9/25/1974

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. James T. Lynn, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Citations

  • 501 F.2d 848
  • 163 U.S. App. D.C. 288

How courts have described this case

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  • mentioning no statutory deadline which might contradict the suspension in question, and recognizing instead evidence of congressional acceptance of the moratorium's legality
  • mentioning no statutory deadline which might contradict the suspension in question, and recog- nizing instead evidence of congressional acceptance of the moratorium's legality
  • “[D]iscerning Congress’s intent to bestow or withhold discretion . . . is not a simple matter of tallying the ‘shalls’ and ‘mays’ and finding that the ‘mays’ have it.”
  • agency decision reversed because concentrated solely on land use considerations
  • agency decision reversed because concentrated solely on land use considerations
  • upholding the executive’s decision not to spend appropriated funds

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Judges: McGowan, Tamm, Lev-Enthal

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