The Most Important Law Most People Have Never Heard Of - Legal Planet

The Most Important Law Most People Have Never Heard Of - Legal Planet

Seventy-nine years ago, President Harry Truman signed a law that, to this day, most Americans have never heard of. Even the title of the law — the Administrative Procedure Act or APA — is a guaranteed yawner.  Yet this law is central to the rule of law and, among other things, to environmental protection.  We are learning from the current Administration’s efforts to evade the APA just how important it is. Administrative procedure is a complicate…