Legal Opinion
Ramaprakash v. Federal Aviation Administration
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 21, 2003No. 02-1283PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROBERTS.
ROBERTS, Circuit Judge:
Learned Hand once remarked that agencies tend to “fall into grooves, ... and when they get into grooves, then God save you to get them out.” 1 Judge Hand never met the National Transportation Safety Board. In this case, we grant the petition for review because the Board has failed adequately to explain its departures from its own precedent in no fewer than three significant respects.
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Petitioner Tilak Ramaprakash was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Doraville, Georgia, in December 1996, and was…
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