ABSTRACT

After the administrative agency has acted, a party can take the issue to a court for review by a totally disinterested party. The parts of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) starting with Section 701 and running through Section 706 detail the ways in which administrative agency actions are reviewed by courts. Section 701 states that unless a statute “precludes judicial review” or “the agency action is committed to agency discretion by law,” the agency action is reviewable by a court. The APA also says, in section 704, “agency actions made reviewable by statute and final agency action for which there is no other adequate remedy in a court are subject to judicial review.” This means that if there is no other solution to lawyer’s problem with the agency, then they can seek review by a court and, of course, that they can seek review by a court once the agency has taken its final action.