Union Flights, Inc., a California Corporation v. Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

Union Flights, Inc. petitions for review of an order of the National Transportation Safety Board (Board), which dismissed as untimely Union Flights’ appeal from a decision of an administrative law judge (AU). We find that the Board’s rule allowing fifty days to file a brief in support of an appeal from an oral decision of an AU, and only thirty days for filing such a brief after a written decision, to be rational, and that the Board’s change of policy requiring “good cause” for failure to observe the time limits was properly effected by adjudicative ruling.…