Exam 5: Administrative Law

Administrative agencies must, within one year of their creation, make records available by electronic means.

Administrative law is the branch of private law created by agencies in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions to carry out regulatory powers and duties.

The Government in the Sunshine Act allows for closed meetings if they concern agency participation in pending or anticipated litigation.

In reviewing an agency action, which of the following is included in the questions of law a court will consider?

An agency can charge for providing records to a person requesting access to its files.

The rules of evidence apply to an administrative hearing just as they do to a jury trial in the U.S. District Court.

The 1990 Congressional enactment encouraging the involvement of affected parties in the initial stages of the policy- making process prior to the publication of notice of a proposed agency rule is the:

To what do the letters APA refer?

An administrative agency is created when Congress enacts an enabling statute that delegates to the agency the power to issue rules, regulations, and guidelines to carry out its statutory mandate.