Atieh v. Riordan

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The infrastructure of the adjudicative process consists of rules, many of which are procedural. Not surprisingly, then, the due administration of justice typically requires both courts and litigants to give fastidious attention to procedural regularity, When parties lead a court down a path that ignores proper procedure, bad things often happen.

This case illustrates the point: the parties presented the matter to the district court in a posture inimical to that required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. §§ 701-706, for judicial review of final agency…