Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation v. United States Department of the Interior, American Iron and Steel Institute, Intervenor

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• recognizing that the regulations contemplate the possibility of a delayed schedule when “a document is unusually long”
• concluding that the agency’s “decision to withdraw the document did not alter substantive legal obligations under previously published regulations”
• concluding that a rule was not unlawfully repealed by subsequent agency actions for “the simple reason that . . . [it] never became a binding rule requiring repeal”
• holding statutory limitations period barred review of agency response to settled matter even if agency solicited comments on unsettled matter
• explaining that preamble language has 13 independent legal effect when an agency intends to bind either itself or regulated parties
• explaining that preamble language has 13 independent legal effect when an agency intends to bind either itself or regulated parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).