Administrative Law
Overview
New regulations, changes to existing laws, and other regulatory or enforcement shifts can have ripple effects that disrupt business-as-usual, inhibit innovation, and even imperil entire industries. Our administrative law practice combines our deep familiarity with administrative procedure with an extensive knowledge of federal (and many state) agencies and their processes to obtain results beneficial to our clients' interests, whether through rulemaking proceedings, informal presentations, agency adjudicative or enforcement proceedings, or in the courts, if necessary.
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Firm News | 3 min read | 11.03.23
Crowell & Moring Earns 59 Rankings in 2024 “Best Law Firms” Report
Crowell & Moring ranked nationally in 20 practice areas in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” In addition, the firm was ranked in 39 metropolitan categories.
Client Alert | 8 min read | 04.26.23
Publication | 03.29.23
Client Alert | 5 min read | 11.08.22
Supreme Court Hears Argument Regarding Challenges to Administrative Agency Procedures
Representative Matters
- Representing American Farm Bureau Federation as intervenor in an APA lawsuit challenging the legality of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.
- Advising a national agricultural trade association on regulatory proposals and APA litigation involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s conservation compliance programs.
- Advised a company on potential grounds to bring an APA challenge to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s efforts to recall infant inclined sleeper products.
- Represented trade associations in numerous APA challenges to EPA rulemakings arising under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
- Led APA challenge to EPA rulemaking on chemical issues on grounds the agency failed to provide due process.
- Counsel the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association on EPA's new—and existing—source power plant greenhouse gas emission standards.
- Represent American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Association in D.C. Circuit litigation regarding EPA’s renewable fuel standards and ozone national ambient air quality standards.
- Won summary judgment for an energy company in an APA lawsuit challenging a final decision of the Department of the Interior as unlawful, arbitrary and capricious, and a violation of due process where the agency’s action affected the property rights of Crowell’s client yet the agency never gave Crowell’s client notice and a chance to comment on the intended action.
- Represented trade association in an APA lawsuit challenging the legality and reasonableness of the Small Business Association’s and Office of Management and Budget’s handling of information gathering related to applications for loan forgiveness under the 2020 CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program.
- Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a government defense contractor in a FOIA case in the Northern District of California, in which the court agreed with Crowell’s argument that confidential information of its client in possession of the Department of Defense was exempt from disclosure under FOIA Exemption 4.
Insights
Firm News | 3 min read | 11.03.23
Crowell & Moring Earns 59 Rankings in 2024 “Best Law Firms” Report
Crowell & Moring ranked nationally in 20 practice areas in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” In addition, the firm was ranked in 39 metropolitan categories.
Client Alert | 8 min read | 04.26.23
Publication | 03.29.23
Client Alert | 5 min read | 11.08.22
Supreme Court Hears Argument Regarding Challenges to Administrative Agency Procedures
Professionals
Insights
Firm News | 3 min read | 11.03.23
Crowell & Moring Earns 59 Rankings in 2024 “Best Law Firms” Report
Crowell & Moring ranked nationally in 20 practice areas in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” In addition, the firm was ranked in 39 metropolitan categories.
Client Alert | 8 min read | 04.26.23
Publication | 03.29.23
Client Alert | 5 min read | 11.08.22
Supreme Court Hears Argument Regarding Challenges to Administrative Agency Procedures