Chevron Matters: How the Chevron Doctrine Re-Defined the Roles of Congress, Courts and Agencies in Environmental Law

Dirty dancing--the FDA stumbles with the Chevron two-step: a response to professor Noah.

Professor Lars Noah deserves much credit for exposing some of the myriad ways in which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has consistently sought to expand its authority through questionable, and perhaps in some cases abusive, legal practices.1 As Professor Noah observes, there are signs that the federal courts’ century-long honeymoon with the FDA may be ending2—and perhaps the FDA never de...

Shedding Light on Chevron: An Empirical Study of the Chevron Doctrine in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Political Control Versus Impermissible Bias In Agency Decisionmaking : Lessons from Chevron and Mistretta Richard

Our government is designed so that policy decisions will be made by politically accountable officials. At the same time, the right to an unbiased decisionmaker is one of the most important guarantees of our judicial system.' Since most administrative agencies both make policy and adjudicate disputes, tension between these two core constitutional values inevitably arises in the administrative st...

Response Modification Factor of Chevron Braced Frame With Pall Friction Damper

Response modification factors (R-factor) are used in current seismic building codes to reduce earthquake forces associated with seismic design level to determine force levels. In recent years, many authors have shown great interest in the development of seismic structural systems and several theoretical and experimental studies have been conducted to investigate performance of dampers but littl...

OPTIMUM LAYOUT OF NONLINEAR FLUID VISCOUS DAMPER FOR IMPROVEMENT THE RESPONSES OF TALL BUILDINGS

The utilization of passive energy dissipation systems has been created a revolution in the structural engineering industry due to their advantages. Fluid Viscous Damper (FVD) is one of these control systems. It has been used in many different industries, such as the army, aerospace, bridge, and building structures. One of the essential questions about this system is how it can combine with the ...