Legal Opinion
Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Commissioner, Food & Drug Administration, and Aspirin Foundation of America, Inc
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 27, 1984No. 83-1302PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge J. SKELLY WRIGHT.
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
In this case we must decide whether the failure to date of the Food and Drug Administration 1 to promulgate a rule requiring certain warnings on labels of aspirin products violates the prohibition of “unreasonably delayed” agency action in the Administrative Procedure Act. 5 U.S.C. § 706(1) (1982) (“[t]he reviewing court shall * * * compel agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed”). Based on considerable scientific evidence suggesting that children with influenza or chicken pox who…
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