The laws surrounding federal agencies are administrative laws. A statutory law is a law that is written, usually enacted by a legislative body. In addition, a common law, or case law, allows judges to render decisions based on the ruling of earlier cases. Common law is guided by the regulations set forth in federal of state statutes, but it does not rely exclusively on those written laws. It was derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Federal courts, since the creation of the APA, …show more content…
Reviewable agency action can be defined as “agency action made reviewable by statute and final agency action for which there is no other adequate remedy in a court are subject to judicial review.” The second part of this statement intends to clarify that when judicial review of a category of agency action is provided for in a statute other than the APA, that statute’s judicial review provisions take precedence over the APA’s and continue in force. This is sensible statutory reasoning. The APA admits that it is meant to provide review in those cases in which review is not otherwise