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· 12/5/1984

Community Nutrition Institute v. John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture

Citations

  • 749 F.2d 50
  • 242 U.S. App. D.C. 28
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 16192

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Rulemaking proceedings would never end if an agency’s response to comments must always be made the subject of additional comments”
  • refusing to accord preclusive effect to determination made in granting of preliminary injunction in final hearing on the merits in a different case
  • “Rulemaking proceedings would never end if an agency’s response to comments must always be made the subject of additional comments.”
  • no violation of notice and comment requirements when unavailable supplemental studies were a response to comments which discussed a methodological flaw in prior studies
  • no prejudice from agency’s response to comments in form of “new scientific studies” where petitioners did “not even suggest that the new studies were defective”
  • no violation of notice and comment requirements when unavailable supplemental studies were a response to comments which discussed a methodological flaw in prior studies

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Judges: Wilkey, Bork, Scalia

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