Court Opinion

ID: 9635014
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:32:27.634427+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:14.742907
License: Public Domain

HARRIS, Associate Judge;
I concur in the result and in the reasoning expressed in the majority opinion, with but one exception. I respectfully disagree with the majority’s belief that the provisions of the District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act (DCAPA) establish a basic dichotomy between adjudicatory proceedings and rulemaking proceedings, and that such a dichotomy provides the basis for determining whether a particular administrative proceeding is a contested case — and hence subject to judicial review.
I recognize that such a characterization was adopted by a majority of the court in Chevy Chase Citizens Association v. Council, D.C.App., 327 A.2d 310 (1974) (en banc), and that such a position is now binding upon us. Nevertheless, for the reasons set forth in my dissent in Chevy Chase, supra, I *428continue to find fault with such an analysis of the provisions of the DCAPA. See 327 A.2d at 320-21. I am still of the opinion that the dichotomy the Act creates is between contested cases and noncontested cases.
While I thus express my disagreement with a small portion of the language utilized by the majority, that portion of the opinion is not central to our disposition of this ease, and I do not wish to belabor the point. Accordingly, I concur, and express this limited area of disagreement in a cursory fashion.