John Meisel v. Securities and Exchange Commission

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How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “[b]ecause the [agency] only listed the facts and stated its conclusions, but did not connect them in any rational way, the [agency’s] decisions are arbitrary and capricious.”
• holding that the agency “omitted 17 the critical step—connecting the facts to the conclusion”
• holding that \in the interest of justice\ is a judicially manageable standard
• finding that an agency decision which only listed the facts and conclusions, “but did not connect them in any rational way” was arbitrary and capricious
• finding that boilerplate letters “omitted the critical step—connecting the facts to the conclusion”
• remanding to Army Board for Correction of Military Records because “boilerplate language used by the Board ma[de] it impossible to discern the Board’s path”

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