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Businesses are subject to substantial federal, state, and local government regulation
Government regulation
Designed to protect employees and the public from unsafe and abusive practices by businesses

Law that governments enact to regulate industries, businesses, and professionals
Administrative agencies: Agencies that governments create to enforce regulatory statutes

Government regulation that applies to many agencies

Government regulations that applies to a specific agencies

Federal administrative agencies that are created by the U.S. Congress

Federal agencies that advise the president and are responsible for enforcing specific administrative statutes enacted by Congress

Federal agencies that have broad regulatory powers over key areas of the national economy

State administrative agencies:
Local administrative agencies:

Created by legislative branches of states
Administers state regulatory laws

Created by cities, municipalities, and counties
Administers local regulatory law

Administrative law
Substantive administrative law
Procedural administrative law

combination of substantive and procedural law

Law that an administrative agency enforces

Establishes the procedures that must be followed by an administrative agency while enforcing substantive laws

An employee of an administrative agency
Presides over an administrative proceeding
Decides questions of law and fact concerning cases
Order: A decision issued by an administrative law judge
Administrative Procedure Act (APA): A federal statute that establishes procedures to be followed by federal administrative agencies while conducting their affairs

: A doctrine that says
When an administrative agency is created, it is delegated certain powers
The agency can use only the legislative, judicial, and executive powers that are delegated to it

Subject to the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Unreasonable search and seizure: Any search and seizure by the government that violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Evidence from an unreasonable search and seizure ("tainted evidence") is inadmissible in court

Federal act that gives the public access to documents in the possession of federal administrative agencies
Documents are exempt from disclosure if they
Are classified in the interests of national security
Are statutorily prohibited from disclosure
Interfere with law enforcement proceedings
Are medical, personnel, and similar files
Contain trade secrets, confidential or privileged information

A federal act that opens most federal administrative agency meetings to the public
Exceptions are meetings:
Where a person is accused of a crime
Concerning an agency's issuance of a subpoena
Where attendance of the public would significantly frustrate the implementation of a proposed agency action
Concerning day-to-day operations

A federal act that protects persons from harassment by federal administrative agencies
Privacy Act: A federal act which states
Federal administrative agencies can maintain only information about an individual that is relevant and necessary to accomplish a legitimate agency purpose