Courts invalidate agency rules that exceed authority granted by Congress

Evidence

The courts must chen determine whether te agency ates pieeededhi its authority or has adopted policies that are consistent with its authorizing legislation. This was the issue when the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations dealing with the marketing of tobacco products in 1996. Tobacco companies sued, asserting that Congress had never given the FDA authority to regulate tobacco products, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed, invalidating the agency’s regulations. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2787

Categorization

• XREF: FDA v. Brown & Williamson (2000) — a canonical statutory-interpretation case for a judicial process course.