Terry Lynn Horner v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an agency may depart from prior norms because “although the rule in general serves useful purposes, peculiarities of the case before it suggest that the rule not be applied in that case”
• stating that the agency must \assert[ ] distinctions that ... reveal the policies [it] is pursuing\
• holdingthat an agency abuses its discretion by not offering adequate explanation for its failure to follow its own precedent
• stating that the agency must “assert[ ] distinctions that ... reveal the policies [it] is pursuing”
• noting that “the agency must set forth clearly the grounds on which it acted”
• stating that an agency has a “duty to explain its departure from prior norms”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).