Legal Opinion
Stephen J. Rochna v. National Transportation Safety Board and James B. Busey, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 12, 1991No. 90-1919PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises on a single issue: whether the Federal Aviation Administration’s (“FAA’s”) disinclination to promulgate through public notice and comment or publish in the Code of Federal Regulations (“CFR”) a rule authorizing the suspension of an airman certificate is a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. §§ 552(a)(1) and 553. We reject the appeal.
I. BACKGROUND
On March 14, 1988, the FAA Administrator suspended Stephen J. Rochna’s airman certificate for ninety days under the provisions of Section 609 of the Federal Aviation Act of…
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