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58 Vand. L. Rev. 1443 (2005)
How Mead Has Muddled Judicial Review of Agency Action

handle is hein.journals/vanlr58 and id is 1465 raw text is: VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW VOLUME 58 OCTOBER 2005 NUMBER 5 How Mead Has Muddled Judicial Review of Agency Action Lisa Schultz Bressman* IN TRODU CTION .............................................................................. 1443 I. SETTING THE STAGE: MEAD AND BARNHART ...................... 1451 II. MEAD IN THE COURTS OF APPEALS ..................................... 1457 A. Analytical Divergence ............................................. 1458 B. Chevron Avoidance ................................................. 1464 C. Jurisdictional Questions and Explicit D elegations .............................................................. 1469 III. M EAD IN THE FUTURE ......................................................... 1475 A. Decoding the Concurrence in Brand X ................... 1475 B. Rejecting the Dissent in Mead ................................ 1478 C. Rejecting the Majority in Mead .............................. 1481 D. Rethinking the Case ................................................ 1486 1. Justifying a Return to Formalism ............... 1486 2. Moderating the Embrace of Formalism ...... 1488 C ON CLU SIO N .................................................................................. 1491 INTRODUCTION When the Supreme Court decided United States v. Mead Corp. four years ago,1 Justice Scalia predicted that judicial review of agency Lisa Schultz Bressman, Professor, Vanderbilt Law School. I am grateful for insightful comments on earlier drafts to Michael Bressman, Tracey George, Richard Nagareda, Suzanna Sherry, and Michael Vandenbergh. I am indebted for excellent research assistance to Sara Broach, Brian Fleming, and Lily Li Huang. 1443

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