Hutchins v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an interpretive rule issued by the Attorney General pursuant to the CSA is a “final determination” for jurisdictional purposes because the rule “impos[es] obligations and sanctions in the event of violation [of its provisions]”
• explaining that interpretive rules “explain, but do not add to, the substantive law that already exists in the form of a statute or legislative rule”
• “[I]f ... the challenged regulations presentí ] plaintiffs with the immediate dilemma to choose between complying with newly imposed, disadvantageous restrictions and risking serious penalties for violation, the controversy is ripe.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).