Alberty v. Federal Trade Commission

Ever since Congress decided that many of the problems of our complex economy should be entrusted to specialized agencies, courts have relied on notions of “self-restraint” and “special competence” to limit their review of agency action. This was tacit recognition that no court could match the skill, time and selectivity which are brought to bear upon any given problem by an 'agency especially established and equipped for that purpose. A direct outgrowth of this development was a reorientation in judicial thinking, fundamental to which was the distinction between that which one finds…