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.

631 — An annotated sample FOIA request
633 — A random example of the denial of a FOIA request, and some examples of heavily redacted “grants”