Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Inc.

The Nondelegation Doctrine has not presented a viable barrier to administrative agency rulemaking in over sixty years. In Whitman v. American Trucking, the Supreme Court ensured that the doctrine will maintain its defunct status when it held that EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standards did not violate the doctrine. Alternatively, the Court directed lower courts to ground their judicial review of agency actions in more sound principles of administrative law. This holding provides the judiciary with the tools it requires to check agency actions without limiting agencies' necessary flexibility in carrying out their congressional mandates.