requiring an agency to provide reasoned analysis before changing its standards
How later courts described this case
- requiring an agency to provide reasoned analysis before changing its standards
- upholding the constitutionality of an emergency procedure which allowed government inspectors to order the immediate cessation of mining activities
- holding "that there is no such thing as a Federal police power except in respect of those specific subjects delegated to Congress, such as treason, counterfeiting, piracies and felonies on the high seas and offences against the laws of nations"
- refusing to transfer, by analogy, the wording of a state statute into a federal statute.
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 02-1619
THAMES SHIPYARD AND REPAIR COMPANY,
Plaintiff in Cross Claim, Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES,
Defendant, Appellee.
No. 02-1620
NORTHERN VOYAGER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP;
ONEBEACON AMERICA INSURANCE COMPANY f/k/a/
COMMERCIAL UNION INSURANCE COMPANY,
Plaintiffs, Appellants,
v.
UNITED STATES,
Defendant, Appellee.
APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
[Hon. Rya W. Zobel, U.S. District Judge]
Before
Torruella, Circuit Judge,
Campbell and Stahl, Senior Circuit Judges.
ERRATA SHEET
The opinion of this Court issued on November 26, 2003, is
amended as follows:
On page 2 of the cover page, Volume I of II and Volume II or
II, replace "Donald J. Sullivan" with "Michael J. Sullivan".