McLeod v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that agency decisions are final even if they can be revisited
• acknowledging the APA language authorizing courts to “hold unlawful and set aside agency actions” to permit vacatur
• permitting APA vacatur under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2) as the “default rule”
• “The Department makes no developed argument that the district court abused its discretion in following the default [vacatur] rule, so the Department forfeited the argument.”
• “Were it otherwise, no agency action would be final because an agency could always revisit it.”
• “In reviewing an agency’s actions, we may consider only the reasoning ‘articulated by the agency itself’; we can- not consider post hoc rationalizations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).