Williams v. Pierce, 708 F.2d 57 (1983)
- Citation
- Williams v. Pierce, 708 F.2d 57 (1983)
- Parent Document
- Williams v. Pierce, 708 F.2d 57 (1983)
- Jurisdiction
- United States (federal)
- Effective Date
- 1983-05-12
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I respectfully dissent. The Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") claims the right to violate its own regulations obliging it to give a 60-day period to the public within which to comment on proposed rules before they are issued in final form. Its justification for this violation of its own rules is the purported need for swift action. This argument is vitiated, however, by the fact that HUD itself created whatever "urgency" existed by its own sluggish internal consideration of the proposed rules over a period of nearly seven months. It is anomalous and contrary to the public interest for a public agency, after frittering away seven months on its internal reflection upon the advisability of a proposed rule, to conclude suddenly that it cannot spare 60 days to obtain the public's views, comments and criticisms, which often lead to beneficial changes and revisions. I think we should decline to endorse HUD's extraordinarily casual approach to the right of the public to comment on proposed rules before those rules are imposed on it. To uphold HUD's action is to eliminate a valuable procedure and seriously weaken the usefulness of judicial review.