Chapter Five
Sample Documents
Sample documents or standard-form materials relevant to chapter five
458 — A formal adjudication begins with a complaint. Here is an example, the complaint in the FTC’s Pom Wonderful proceeding. If you were the defendant, you would be disheartened to see the names of the ultimate decisionmakers on the complaint itself, would you not?
486 — Here are examples of informal rulemaking documents. You can, of course, find hundreds of others on regulations.gov.
An Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) (financial crimes enforcement, anti-money laundering)
A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) (arsenic drinking water standard)
Another NPRM (Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act rulemaking)
A final rule (arsenic drinking water standard)
Another final rule (Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act)
A Direct Final Rule (revision to safety standards for cribs and play yards)
631 — An annotated sample FOIA request
633 — A random example of the denial of a FOIA request, and some examples of heavily redacted “grants”