Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Ass'n

Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association, 575 U.S. ___ (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the D.C. Circuit's Paralyzed Veterans doctrine is contrary to a clear reading of the Administrative Procedure Act and "improperly imposes on agencies an obligation beyond the Act's maximum procedural requirements."[1]

Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association
Argued December 1, 2014
Decided March 9, 2015
Full case nameThomas E. Perez, Secretary of Labor, et al., Petitioners v. Mortgage Bankers Association, et al.; Jerome Nickols, et al., Petitioners v. Mortgage Bankers Association
Docket nos.13–1041
13–1052
Citations575 U.S. ___ (more)
135 S. Ct. 1199; 191 L. Ed. 2d 186
Case history
PriorMortg. Bankers Ass'n v. Harris, 720 F.3d 966, 405 U.S. App. D.C. 429 (D.C. Cir. 2013)
Holding
Notice-and-comment procedures are not required when agencies enact interpretive rules, and they should not be required to make subsequent interpretations.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
MajoritySotomayor, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan; Alito (expect part III-B)
ConcurrenceAlito
ConcurrenceScalia
ConcurrenceThomas
Laws applied
Administrative Procedure Act

Opinion of the Court

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored the opinion of the Court.[2]

Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas authored concurring opinions.

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