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CORNER POST, INC. v. BOARD OF GOVERNORS, FRS 

KAVANAUGH, J., concurring 

difficulty applying the remedy in practice.  Some 78 years 
after  the  APA  and  57  years  after  Abbott  Laboratories,  I 
would  not  suddenly  throw  out  that  sound  and  settled
interpretation  of  the  APA  and  eliminate  entire  classes  of
historically  common  and  vitally 
litigation
against federal agencies. 

important 

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The Government’s crusade against vacatur would create
“strange and even absurd consequences.”  Sohoni, The Past 
and Future of Universal Vacatur, 133 Yale L. J., at 2340. 
In this opinion, I have described one such consequence:  It 
would leave unregulated plaintiffs like Corner Post without
a  remedy  in  APA  challenges  to  agency  rules.  The 
Government’s  position  therefore  would  fundamentally
reshape  administrative 
leaving  administrative 
law, 
agencies with extraordinary new power to issue rules free 
from potential suits by unregulated but adversely affected 
parties—businesses, environmental plaintiffs, workers, the 
list goes on.

I  agree  with  the  longstanding  consensus—a  consensus 
based on text, history, precedent, and common sense—that
vacatur  is  an  appropriate  remedy  when  a  federal  court
holds  that  an  agency  rule  is  unlawful.    Because  vacatur 
remains an available remedy under the APA, Corner Post
can obtain meaningful relief if it prevails in this lawsuit.