Court Opinion

ID: 9480239
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:41:51.232175+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:33.416763
License: Public Domain

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the denial of the suggestions for rehearing en banc: The Court here takes a statute directing the Commission to “promulgate regulations [, or other appropriate Commission regulatory guidance]” for various purposes, and produces something quite different, completely shorn of the bracketed language. I would call for rehearing en banc, but the statute appears unique and, perhaps more important, it seems to me not beyond the reach of agency expertise to devise “regulations” that preserve most if not all of the flexibility the Commission sought and, correctly I think, believes lawful. Certainly other agencies have done so. See, e.g., Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States, 342 U.S. 337, 72 S.Ct. 329, 96 L.Ed. 367 (1952).