Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants = Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC
ArgueDate = November 28
ArgueYear = 1977
DecideDate = April 3
DecideYear = 1978
FullName = Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
USVol = 435
USPage = 519
Citation =
Prior =
Subsequent =
Holding = While federal agencies are free to grant additional procedural rights in the exercise of their discretion, reviewing courts are generally not free to impose them if the agencies have not chosen to grant them.
SCOTUS = 1975-1981
Majority = Rehnquist
JoinMajority = "unanimous court"
NotParticipating = Blackmun, Powell
LawsApplied =

"Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council", 435 U.S. 519 (1978), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a court cannot impose rulemaking procedures on a federal government agency. The federal Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 and an agency's statutory mandate from Congress establish the minimum requirements for an agency's rulemaking (and adjudicative) process. An agency may grant additional procedural rights in the regulatory process (within constitutional and statutory limits), but a reviewing court cannot "impose upon the agency its own notion of which procedures are 'best' or most likely to further some vague, undefined public good." (435 U.S. at 549.) To do so would exceed the limits of judicial review of agency action.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 435

Further reading

*cite journal |last=Breyer |first=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen Breyer |coauthors= |year=1978 |month= |title="Vermont Yankee" and the Courts' Role in the Nuclear Energy Controversy |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=91 |issue=8 |pages=1833–1845 |doi=10.2307/1340411 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Stewart |first=Richard B. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1978 |month= |title="Vermont Yankee" and the Evolution of Administrative Procedure |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=91 |issue=8 |pages=1805–1822 |doi=10.2307/1340409 |url= |accessdate= |quote=

External links

* [http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/adlaw/vermont-yankee.htm "Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc", 435 U.S. 519 (1978)] from [http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/index.htm Louisiana State University - Medical & Public Health Law site]