Opinion ID: 2569468
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Risk of error created by the delay

Text: This factor strongly favors the CFEC. If Brandal had not received an interim permit, and if the final decision had been to grant his application, he would have a strong argument that the CFEC's delay created a serious risk of an erroneous deprivation [39] of his property interest, as it would have deprived him of twenty-two years of rightful access to the fishery. But the CFEC obviated this problem by issuing him an interim permit. The CFEC's grant of an interim permit may have been erroneous relative to the final decision, but the error resulted in a windfall for Brandal. Furthermore, Brandal has not identified any aspect of the CFEC's procedure that is likely to create the risk of an inaccurate result. The CFEC's glacial pace endangered the timeliness of the decision, not the accuracy of the result. Although Brandal raises substantive objections to the CFEC's decision, these objections arise from a dispute about the meaning of the special circumstances provision, not a claim that the CFEC's factfinding process is fundamentally flawed.