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· 10/15/1832

Flint v. Wells

Citations

  • 4 La. 537

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  • holding that agency action was arbitrary and capricious where the agency \only consider[ed] one side of the equation\ in its cost-benefit analysis
  • finding that the agency's failure to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision to suspend a rule based on the rule's costs, while ignoring its benefits, violated the APA
  • delaying the compliance date for regulations without complying with APA procedures to issue such a delay was a \serious\ error, not a \minor procedural mistake[ ]\
  • rejecting stay where the agency \merely paid *lip service' to the pending judicial review\
  • \Without considering both the costs and the benefits of\ a deregulatory action, an agency \fail[s] to take [an] 'important aspect' of the problem into account.\
  • Section 705 stays that \failed to consider the benefits of the\ stayed rule must be vacated

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Judges: Mathews

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