Kendall Batchelor v. the State of Texas

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• holding that if the agency wishes to reconsider its decision, “it must proceed in the manner authorized by statute”
• finding that an agency \is entirely a creature of Congress\ and \the determinative question\ is not what \[it] thinks it should do but what Congress has said it can do.\
• finding that an 11 agency “is entirely a creature of Congress” and “the determinative 12 question” is not what “[it] thinks it should do but what Congress 13 has said it can do.”
• rejecting agency’s assertion of “the power to do indirectly what it cannot do directly”
• “[T]he determinative question is not what the Board thinks it can do but what Congress has said it can do.”
• administrative order is not final for purposes of judicial review until agency has disposed of outstanding petitions for reconsideration

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