Dickinson v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• describing the importance to judicial review of a proper agency order when the agency makes a discretionary decision pursuant to broad statutory authority
• describing discretion as a range of responsible choices in pursuing objectives “more or less broadly indicated by the legislature (or, in Oregon, by the people themselves) under various circumstances pertinent to those objectives”
• Public Utility Commissioner’s reasons for predicted effect of sanctions, “when properly articulated, are entitled to the deference commonly accorded agency ‘expertise’ insofar as they reflect” matters within the commissioner’s expertise
• discretion to mitigate sanctions must have explainable reasons
• discretion to mitigate sanctions must have explainable reasons
• discussing the nature of discretion in administrative proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).