Agency Adjudication

The Court rules that the Seventh Amendment applies to some SEC enforcement actions, but questions remain.

A Supreme Court decision seemingly limited to securities fraud could imperil regulatory adjudication broadly.

Scholars and practitioners assess the Court’s most significant regulatory decisions of its recently concluded term.

Agencies should investigate the factors affecting adjudication timeliness and subsequently adopt the appropriate ACUS recommendations for improvement.

A new recommendation aims to improve fairness of federal administrative adjudication.

Public preferences for human decisions may give way in time to calls for governmental decisions made by artificial intelligence.

A government that increasingly operates on the basis of artificial intelligence will still need to supply human empathy.

Agencies can improve their adjudicatory processes by broadening access to their electronic case management systems.

The Supreme Court grants district-court jurisdiction in an opinion hampering agencies’ adjudicatory authority.

Scholar suggests that increasing the number of support staff would improve the accuracy of administrative adjudication.

Agencies need to pursue systematic efforts to provide quality assurance in their adjudicatory processes.

Agencies should craft rules about public access to their adjudicative proceedings.