You may find these articles of interest

By Ann B. Wall
Members of the Administrative Law Section found the following recent third party articles to be interesting.  Remember – if it says subscription required, check your legal research provider, as many of them include law reviews, journals and other publications.  So, you may not subscribe directly to the publisher’s materials but may have access anyway through other means.

The NC Courts Website as a Research Tool. http://blogs.law.unc.edu/library/2019/10/14/the-nc-courts-website-as-a-research-tool/.  This article from the UNC-CH School of Law Library mentions features of the courts’ new website that you may not yet have discovered.

“The Future of Administrative Deference”,  Andrew Hessick, 41 Campbell L. Rev. 421, Spring, 2019.  Although written before the US Supreme Court ruled in the deference case before it last year, this article provides a useful overview of the issues and why they may matter to NC practitioners.

“U.S. Supreme Court could overturn N.C. law barring companies from giving clients legal advice.” Julie Havlak. Nov. 12, 2019 https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/u-s-supreme-court-could-overturn-n-c-statute-barring-companies-from-offering-legal-advice/

Why the DEA is suing Colorado’s pharmacy board as part of an opioid investigation.  John Ingold. November 11, 2019. https://coloradosun.com/2019/11/11/dea-subpoena-opioid-pharmacy-board/

Expert Witnesses and the Substantial Evidence Rule. By David C.  Kent. November 12, 2019. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/trial-evidence/articles/2019/expert-witness-substantial-evidence/. This article posits that “[t]he Supreme Court’s decision in Biestek v. Berryhill has implications for wider application that may make challenges to administrative agency decisions more difficult.”

Is the Court Encouraging Agencies to Rely on Junk Science? Biestek v. Berryhill, Richard J. Pierce, Jr., Response, GEO
WASH L. REV. ON THE DOCKET (Apr. 23, 2019), https://www.gwlr.org/is-the-court-encouraging-agencies-to-rely-on-junk-science-biestek-v-berryhill/.