Chapter 31 Judicial Review Under the Administrative Review Act and Administrative Procedure Act (§ 31.1.1 to § 31.4.3)

Index

• § 31.1.1 Scope of This Chapter: The Administrative Procedure Act and the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.1.2 Rulemaking vs. Adjudication.
• § 31.2 Direct Review of Administrative Rules.
• § 31.2.1 Scope of the Administrative Procedure Act.
• § 31.2.2 Definition of A Rule.
• § 31.2.3 Governor's Regulatory Review Council.
• § 31.2.4 Review of Agency Rules Under the Declaratory Judgments Act.
• § 31.2.5 Consequences of Failure To Seek Review.
• § 31.2.6 Awards of Attorneys' Fees.
• § 31.3 Review of Agency Decisions Under the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.3.1.1 Evolution of Arizona Law
• § 31.3.1.2 Agencies To Which the Administrative Review Act Applies.
• § 31.3.1.2.1 General Nonapplicability To Local Government Actions.
• § 31.3.1.2.2 Specific Agency Statutes Providing For Review Under the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.3.1.2.3 Nonapplication of Administrative Review Act To Agencies With Special Judicial Review Statutes.
• § 31.3.1.3 Types of Decisions That Are Reviewable.
• § 31.3.1.4 What Constitutes A “Decision.”
• § 31.3.1.5 The Uniform Administrative Hearing Procedures.
• § 31.3.1.5.1 Exempt Agencies.
• § 31.3.1.5.2 Types of Administrative Decisions: Contested Cases and Appealable Agency Actions.
• § 31.3.1.5.3 Exclusion of Rules and Other Statements of Policy of General Application From the Uniform Administrative Hearing Procedures.
• § 31.3.1.6.1 Statutory Authorization of Judicial Review Under the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.3.1.6.2 Administrative Appeal Under the Uniform Administrative Hearing Procedures Necessary To Later Judicial Review.
• § 31.3.1.6.3 Rehearing or Review Permitted.
• § 31.3.1.6.4 Rehearing or Review Is Sometimes Required As A Condition of Obtaining Judicial Review.
• § 31.3.2.1.1 Appellants.
• § 31.3.2.1.2 The Appellee Agency.
• § 31.3.2.1.3 Capacity To Be Sued.
• § 31.3.2.1.4 Private Appellees.
• § 31.3.2.1.5 Appeals From Superior Court.
• § 31.3.2.2.1 Which Decisions Are Final.
• § 31.3.2.2.2 Obligation To Seek Rehearing.
• § 31.3.2.3 Judicial Doctrines of Justiciability.
• § 31.3.2.3.1 Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies.
• § 31.3.2.3.2 Primary Jurisdiction.
• § 31.3.2.3.3 Ripeness.
• § 31.3.2.3.4 Mootness.
• § 31.3.3 Scope and Standards of Judicial Review.
• § 31.3.3.1 The Record.
• § 31.3.3.1.1 On-the-Record Review.
• § 31.3.3.1.2 Trial De Novo: Inadequate Transcript or Demands of Justice.
• § 31.3.3.1.3 Taking of Additional Evidence In Superior Court.
• § 31.3.3.2.1 Introduction and General Objectives.
• § 31.3.3.2.2 Legislative v. Judicial Choice of Standards.
• § 31.3.3.3 Standards of Review On the Record.
• § 31.3.3.3.1 Review of Factual Questions.
• § 31.3.3.3.2 Review of Questions of Law.
• § 31.3.3.3.3 Arbitrary and Capricious and Abuse of Discretion.
• § 31.3.3.4 Standards When Court Hears Evidence.
• § 31.3.4.1 Sources: Statutes and Rules of Court.
• § 31.3.4.2.1 Thirty-Five Day Time Limit For Seeking Judicial Review.
• § 31.3.4.2.2 Required Methods For Service of the Decision.
• § 31.3.4.3 Pleadings and Service of Process.
• § 31.3.4.4 Service of Process.
• § 31.3.4.5 Venue.
• § 31.3.4.6 Transmitting and Supplementing the Record.
• § 31.3.4.7 Stays.
• § 31.3.4.8 Discovery.
• § 31.3.4.9 Briefing the Merits.
• § 31.3.4.10 Superior Court Decision.
• § 31.3.4.11 Findings and Conclusions.
• § 31.3.4.12.1 Taxation of Costs.
• § 31.3.4.12.2 Attorneys' Fees.
• § 31.3.4.13 Further Appeals Beyond the Superior Court.
• § 31.3.4.14 Effect On Continuing Agency Authority.
• § 31.4 Review of Decisions Outside the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.4.1 Effect of Express Exclusion of Welfare Decisions From the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.4.2 Agencies Not Subject To the Administrative Review Act.
• § 31.4.3 Role of Special Action Proceedings.