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Kids Toys Appeal to the Decision by the CPSC

Coursework Instructions:

Your supervising attorney is considering an appeal to federal court and asks you to draft a memo to help her with the decision making process. She has the following questions:

1) Can Kids Toys appeal the CPSC decision to a federal court? If so, what statute(s) give Kids Toys the ability to appeal? Explain the standards that Kids Toys must meet in order to appeal under these statutes.

2) Can Kids Toys argue on appeal to a federal court that the CPSC regulations that permit the agency to interview employees when performing inspections, and the regulations that permit CPSC to issue summary decisions without a full evidentiary hearing, are invalid because the governing statute does not provide express authority for these provisions. Your supervising attorney wants you to address only the issue of whether Kids Toys will be precluded from raising these issues in court since Kids Toys did not raise them in the agency proceedings.

3) Assuming the court does assess the merits of the CPSC's decision, what legal standard will the court apply to review the CPSC's findings that there were no material facts genuinely in dispute and that the Gamamahi is a substantial product hazard under the CPSA. Explain what Kids Toys will need to do to be successful on appeal in light of these standards. She tells you on this question to assume that the CPSC "summary decision" standard in 16 CFR § 1025.25 is based on the summary judgment standards in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 and that cases interpreting summary judgment standards may be relevant to your research. You will need to do research outside of your class casebook to answer this question.

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  1. Kids Toys can appeal the decision by the CPSC. This is provided for under section § 581 of the Judicial Review of the Administrative Procedure act (United States Congress, 1946). Federal administrative agencies are within the purview of review by federal courts. The statute of limitations for judicial review of final agency decisions is 6 years. The appeal must be pursuant to the provisions of sections 9 through 13 of title 9 of the Act.
Kids Toys appeal must be within the scope of judicial review. Thus, its application must require the court to make a determination on; “questions of law, its interpretation of the constitution and statutory provisions and whether these provisions could be applied by the agency and if they were applied correctly. The Federal court after reviewing the evidence provided must then make a determination of the matter before it. The court can then render a number of decisions; agree with the agency’s decision and compel the federal agency to act in the manner it had indicated or disagree with the federal agency and set aside the final agency decision. For the court to set aside the agency decision it must find that the agency actions were; Not in accordance with the law, constituted an egregious abuse of power and its discretion and were capricious and arbitrary; that the agency exceeded its lawful mandate in issuing the decision and in its actions; lack of substantial evidence to support the agency’s decision as required under section 556 and 557 of Title 5 (Government Organization and Employees) of the law; there was gross neglect of the facts such that the court deems it necessary to review the facts de novo; the decision must also be in direct contravention of a constitutionally guaranteed right, immunity or privilege.             The Federal Court will have 3 standards on which to base the decision. Namely; a) substantial evidence; (b) arbitrary and capricious; and (c) statutory interpretation. Kids Toys must therefore prove to the court that the CPSC did have substantial evidence to warrant its decision. Kids Toys can also allude that the CPSC incorrectly interpreted evidence on which it based its decision. For example the parents’ complains or statements from negligent workers. Under the “arbitrary and capricious’ standard, Kids Toys must prove that the CPSC made an error in judgment. It failed to consider all relevant factors and relied on wrong facts in prejudiced manner rendering its decision arbitrary and capricious. The court must ultimately determine if CPSC correctly interpreted its powers under the law correctly. Kids Toys can argue that CPSC by acting on its summary disposition decision prior to Kids Toys exhausting its legal facilities constituted an illegality. CPSC wrongly usurped the statutory provisions and hence erred in its action (Advice Legal , 2015).
  1. In law, the courts generally disapprove of raising new issues in appeals that were not brought up in evidentiary hearings. The judge would be likely to assume that Kids Toys failed to raise these issues on purpose with a strategic purpose. Th...
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