Exam 15: The Regulatory Process

Suppose an agency inspector,such as an OSHA safety inspector,discovers an apparent violation of a regulation at a business being inspected:

The administrative agency equivalent to a court trial is:

An agency develops materials that help those regulated understand what they are required to do to comply with the law through the process of:

In Chevron v.NRDC the Supreme Court held that court of appeals,when considering challenges to agency regulations,must give deference to the agency decision unless the regulations are arbitrary or contrary to a statute passed by Congress.

The first modern federal regulatory agency was created in 1887 to regulate:

Businesses have contested fines resulting from regulations that require mandatory self-reporting of data.They contended that self-reporting of violations violated the Fifth Amendment prohibition against self-incrimination.The Supreme Court has ruled that:

The Administrative Procedures Act controls the appeals process from agency actions.

Observations of regulatory violations made from areas open to the public are known as:

An adjudicatory hearing may be informal,not subject to procedural rules,so that the parties may negotiate a resolution without concern for details.

Administrative rules are classified as substantive (legislative),interpretative,and:

Observations of regulatory violations made from areas open to the public are known as:

The appeal process that serves as an external check on agency power is known as:

Congress can prohibit certain judicial review as long as the exception:

Which of the following is a primary source of administrative law:

Congress can control agency activities through the budget process.

Some administrative agency investigations lead to a formal complaint being filed against a business.This may result in a trial heard by an administrative law judge (ALJ).ALJs are:

Procedural rules issued by administrative agencies are:

In Dow Chemical Co.v.U.S.the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA did not conduct an unconstitutional search of Dow property when it took aerial photographs because the property could be observed by anyone from the air.

There is no right to trial by jury in a hearing at an administrative agency to determine if the law has been violated because:

In addition to civil and criminal penalties,agencies are generally given authority to impose other types of special sanctions,such as seizing company property.