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Procedural due process, in the context of the administrative state, refers to the protections for citizens confronting arbitrary actions by administrative agencies that threaten to deprive them of life, liberty, or property.[1] Procedural due procedure specifically concerns the legal procedures authoritative agencies are required to follow during rulemaking and adjudication proceedings. Substantive due procedure, on the other hand, involves the awarding of administrative law as it relates to individual life, liberty, or holding interests.[2]

The U.Southward. Constitution and the Administrative Process Deed (APA), amongst other sources, establish due process protections for citizens during administrative rulemaking and adjudication processes. These protections are designed to preclude administrative agency violations of private rights.[ane]

Debates about what is constitutionally required to satisfy procedural due process, too as whether available procedural due procedure protections are sufficient, are among the main areas of disputation among scholars and practitioners of administrative law. Click here to learn more about the debate over due process and procedural rights protections in the context of the authoritative state.

Foundations of procedural due process

The concept of due procedure in the United States can trace its foundations to the English language Magna Carta of 1215. The Magna Carta limited the power of the king and government to deprive an individual of his rights without judgment past his peers according to the constabulary of the land. The right to judicial proceedings according to the law of the land developed into the phrase "due process of law."[ane]

U.S. Constitution

See also: Usa Constitution

The framers of the U.Southward. Constitution enshrined the due process of law in the due process clause of the Fifth Subpoena:[1]

"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or belongings, without due process of police."

The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.Due south. Constitution further prohibited state and local governments from depriving citizens of due process protections:[two]

"No Land shall make or enforce any law which shall abbreviate the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall whatsoever State deprive whatever person of life, freedom, or holding, without due process of police force; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."[ii]

Administrative Process Act

Meet also: Authoritative Procedure Act

The 1946 Authoritative Process Human action (APA) established compatible rulemaking procedures for federal agencies to propose and effect regulations, put along procedures for issuing policy statements and licenses, and provided for judicial review of agency adjudications and other final decisions.

The APA features procedural due process protections for citizen interactions with the administrative state. These protections, which concern administrative rulemaking and adjudication activities, are described in detail below.

Procedural due process requirements of administrative agency rulemaking

Run across also: Rulemaking

The APA established rulemaking processes that enable federal agencies to amend, repeal, or create administrative regulations. The well-nigh common rulemaking process is informal rulemaking, which solicits written public feedback on proposed rules during a comment period. When required by statute, certain agencies must follow the formal rulemaking process, which incorporates a trial-like hearing in place of the informal comment period.

The following procedural due process protections both guide and constrain agencies seeking to promulgate regulations:

Fair notice of regulatory action

The due procedure of law requires administrative agencies to provide reasonable observe of regulations.[3] For this reason, an agency that seeks to commence on a regulatory form of activity must first issue a proposed rule, also known equally a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). Afterward a period of public comment, the agency may decide to revise the proposed dominion, abandon the proposal, or move forward to the final rule phase of the rulemaking process.

Run into also: Comment period

The rulemaking process aims to facilitate procedural due process by providing individuals with the opportunity to offer feedback on proposed regulations, either through public annotate periods or formal hearings. After reviewing public feedback, the agency determines whether to revise the proposed rule, abandon the proposal, or move forward to the last rule stage of the rulemaking process.

Procedural due process requirements of administrative bureau adjudication

See as well: Adjudication

The APA defines adjudication as an "bureau process for the formulation of an gild." The agency adjudication process aims to resolve disputes betwixt either agencies and private parties or betwixt two individual parties. The adjudication process results in the issuance of an adjudicative society, which serves to settle the dispute. Arbitrament tin encompass broad swathes of agency determinations that accept place exterior of the rulemaking process.

Model procedural due procedure requirements in agency arbitrament

Judge Henry Friendly of the United States Courtroom of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit created a model list of procedural due process protections during bureau arbitrament in his 1975 law review article "Some Kind of Hearing." The list, according to authoritative police scholar Peter Strauss, "remains highly influential, as to both content and relative priority."[4] Friendly'southward list features the following procedural due process protections, which employ equally to civil due procedure and criminal due process:[v]

  • An unbiased tribunal.
  • Notice of the proposed action and the grounds asserted for it.
  • The opportunity to present reasons for the proposed action not to exist taken.
  • The right to nowadays evidence, including the correct to call witnesses.
  • The right to know the opposing evidence.
  • The right to cross-examine adverse witnesses.
  • A determination based merely on the evidence presented.
  • Opportunity to be represented by counsel.
  • A requirement that the tribunal ready a record of the evidence presented.
  • A requirement that the tribunal prepare written findings of fact and the reasons for its decision.

Applied procedural due process requirements in bureau arbitrament

No one-size-fits-all procedural due process blueprint exists for agencies to follow during adjudication proceedings. Instead, the requirements of procedural due process in agency adjudication vary co-ordinate to the specific circumstances of the case at manus. Administrative law scholar O. John Rogge provided the following description of the diversity of procedural due process in his 1973 law review article "An Overview of Authoritative Due Procedure":[6]

"The requirements of due procedure will vary with different situations. If an individual's profession, livelihood, or freedom is at stake - if, for instance, a lawyer or other professional person is in danger of losing his license; or a public employee or tenured teacher is in danger of losing his job; or a person on parole is in danger of losing his liberty - due process will require charges, the right to counsel, a hearing, confrontation with one'south accusers, the examination and crossexamination of witnesses, and a reasoned conclusion. On the other hand, if what is involved is a bar clan's endorsement of a item judicial candidate, the punishment of a prisoner for an infraction of prison regulations, termination of utility services, the payment of unemployment compensation, or the amount of a government subsidy, a uncomplicated hearing by a disinterested private open up to all parties may be sufficient."[6]

In order to determine if an agency's unique adjudication procedures satisfy due process in a particular case, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom held in Mathews v. Eldridge (1976) that the fairness and reliability of existing procedures must be evaluated in addition to the added value of farther procedural safeguards.[vii]

See also

  • Five pillars of the administrative state: Procedural rights
  • Taxonomy of arguments about due process and procedural rights in the context of the administrative land

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, "Administrative and Judicial Due Procedure," accessed August 27, 2020
  2. ↑ 2.0 two.i 2.two Justia, "Due Process of Law," accessed August 31, 2020
  3. ↑ Pacific Legal Foundation, "The Regulatory State's Due Process Deficits," accessed August 31, 2020
  4. ↑ Legal Information Institute, "Due Process," accessed September ii, 2020
  5. ↑ Academy of Pennsylvania Law Review, "Some Kind of Hearing," 1975
  6. ↑ six.0 half-dozen.1 Villanova Law Review, "An Overview of Administrative Due Procedure," 1973
  7. ↑ U.Southward. Legal, "Fundamental Fairness and Due Process," accessed August 31, 2020