Olympic Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Director, Office of Thrift Supervision

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff’s challenge to the appointment of the agency director and acting director was redressable, even though the plaintiff faced a continuing “threat of government intervention” by other officials
• invoking exception to de facto doctrine for challenge before OTS Director acted, not for past acts of Director
• finding violation where Congress largely continued powers of three-person board but consolidated them in single, designated, pre-existing officer
• finding violation where Congress largely continued powers of three-person board but consolidated them in single, designat- ed, pre-existing officer
• “[E]ach of the Directors could not delegate more authority than he himself had.”
• “The Appointments Clause subjects the selection process to public scrutiny, thereby affecting who takes office, how they perceive their function, and how they exercise their powers.”

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