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Why do unelected bureaucrats get to exercise power? What are the limits on those powers? What recourse do citizens have if bureaucrats abuse those powers? Anyone working with government needs to know the answers to these questions. Administrative Law: The Sources and Limits of Government Agency Power concisely examines the everyday challenges of administrative responsibilities and provides students with a way to understand and manage the complicated mission that is governance. Written by leading scholar Daniel Feldman, the book avoids technical legal language, but at the same time provides solid coverage of legal principles and exemplar studies, which allows students to gain a clear understanding of a complicated and critical aspect of governance.
Adjudication
Adjudication
Agency Power To Conduct Hearings
When he led the Interstate Commerce Commission, Judge Thomas Cooley decided that after a hearing, an agency could not impose a penalty of more than $20, based on the Seventh Amendment guarantee of a due process of law, informed by the Ninth Amendment guarantee of jury trial “where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars.”1
Today, many federal agencies conduct hearings after which penalties or other burdens cost far more than twenty dollars, including the following: Coast Guard, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services/Department Appeals Board, Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Medicare Hearings and ...
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