Between the Lines

On this episode of Between the Lines host Andy Fois talks to an academic expert and an attorney from the Administrative Conference about the use of non-lawyers to represent and assist parties in agency adjudication. In the second half, we meet an attorney who has had an exceptional career in and around administrative law and who talks about his life and the state of administrative law past, presen...

In this episode of Between the Lines , ACUS Chair Andrew Fois interviews two leading experts in administrative law about their careers and views on contemporary ad law issues. In the first half of the show, we'll meet Alan Morrison, a professor and associate dean at the George Washington University School of Law, who has had an exceptional 50-year career in the law as a professor and litigator. In...

In this episode of Between the Lines with ACUS , host Andrew Fois looks “between the lines” of the issues surrounding administrative agency use of contractors in rulemaking.  Contractors are ubiquitous in the federal government performing a wide range of functions in the rulemaking process. Two academic experts, who wrote a report for ACUS in 2022 on the subject will discuss the way agencies use c...

This episode will again take us Between the Lines  of administrative law and agency procedures through talks with two notable people, both good friends of ACUS, who have had accomplished careers in administrative law and agency porcedures. Host Andrew Fois will guide our guests through the work they have done throughout their careers as well as their thoughts on the development and present state o...

On this episode of Between the Lines , host Andy Fois and his guests will delve into the question of “individualized guidance.” Under what circumstances do - and should - agencies provide requestors with guidance about compliance with their programs? And, if given, can requestors, and even third parties, rely on that guidance? An academic expert and ACUS attorney will discuss a report and the ACUS...

In this episode of Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States , host Andrew Fois and his guests will discuss the three significant administrative law cases decided by the United States Supreme Court at the end of its 2023-2024 term. These are: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , SEC v. Jarkesy, and Corner Post v. Federal Reserve. These decisions were previewed in...

On this episode of Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference , host Andrew Fois takes a look at a vital issue in an interconnected world: international regulatory cooperation. Other nations are issuing regulations, or not doing so, on the same things that the United States is. How do those regulations or lack thereof become reconciled? Lots of countries build airplanes and issue regulat...

On this episode of Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States , ACUS Chair Andrew Fois takes you between the lines of two important contemporary issues in administrative law: agency-imposed user fees and agency use of precedential decision-making.  ACUS has recently studied and issued recommendations to federal administrative agencies in both these areas. Its recomme...

This episode of Between the Lines takes a look at an issue that affects tens of millions of Americans and American businesses each year who are subject to adjudication procedures with a federal administrative agency. First, the episode explains what administrative adjudication is. Then it drills down on two timely issues: how can online processes be used to improve adjudications for all parties an...

This month on Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference , host Andy Fois and a panel of experts will explore questions about the transparency of administrative agencies and how they can do a better job of providing for public participation and engagement. Witnesses from the Office of Management and Budget will explain a recent request for information that it issued to receive input from...

This episode of Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference (ACUS) explores two important cases in administrative law being considered by the United States Supreme Court in the 2023-2024 term. The first, SEC v. Jarkesy , could make significant changes to how federal administrative agencies conduct enforcement adjudications. It raises three constitutional issues: the 7th amendment right to...

This episode of Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the US is titled: Justice Delayed/Justice Denied: Timeliness of Agency Adjudication. The show tackles the all too persistent problem of backlogs and delays that people often face when required to deal with an agency adjudication. Millions of Americans do so every year to obtain benefits, services, permits, and licenses or to r...

This episode of “Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS)” will investigate how federal administrative agencies can identify and reduce the burdens that the public faces when interacting with these agencies.  Tens of millions of Americans and small businesses must interact with federal administrative agencies every year. They must do so for a wide variety of...

This episode of Between the Lines considers one of the most important cases in administrative law, namely, the Chevron deference doctrine. Chevron, decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1985,and the subsequent cases that made it into a “doctrine,” deal with how courts should evaluate an administrative agency’s interpretation of its authorizing statute that it claims empowers it to issue th...

This episode of “Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States,” tackles the timely and complex issues regarding federal agency use of machine learning, generative AI, and other algorithmic tools in administrative proceedings. These procedures include regulation and rulemaking, enforcement, adjudication, and licensing. Andrew Fois, host of the show and chair of the Admi...

In this episode, host Andy Fois, Chair of the Administrative Conference of the United States, how the interests of regular people and small businesses are represented before federal administrative agencies take actions that effect their interests. He is joined by: Amy Widman, Law Professor, Rutgers University Rachel Rossi, Director of the Office for Access to Justice, Department of Justice Ron Fla...

This inaugural episode of the new FNN show Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States takes listeners “between the lines” of issues in administrative law and government procedures, as well as the work of the Administrative Conference (ACUS) on those issues. This first episode will give you some background information to help you understand what ACUS is, what it does,...