J. Mahoney v. Shaun Donovan

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.

RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court dismissing, for lack of standing, J. Jeremiah Mahoney’s complaint. We affirm, but on different grounds.

Mahoney is an administrative law judge — an ALJ — at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He brought this action alleging that the agency had interfered with his decisional independence and thereby violated the Administrative Procedure Act. His complaint alleged that his supervisor, David Anderson, had “failed to consistently…