Opinion ID: 544933
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Existing Procedures

Text: 21 The State points out that since 1958 the DVR has offered some sort of hearing and that this procedure existed at the time the vendors filed suit. However, if the State means that the vendors should have used the existing procedure, such an argument is seriously misguided. 22 The determination that the vendors are required to exhaust their remedies under the Randolph-Sheppard Act results from a reading of that Act and an interpretation of congressional intent. Because Congress prescribed an elaborate remedial mechanism for the resolution of disputes arising under the Act, it is entirely appropriate to conclude that Congress must have intended that such a remedy be exhausted. However, it would be entirely inappropriate to conclude that, in the absence of the statutorily prescribed mechanism, Congress alternatively intended that a substitute mechanism offered by the State not mentioned in the statute also be exhausted.