Pairings for Popper, McKee Savitz, Varona & Niles, Administrative Law: A Contemporary Approach (5th ed. 2025)

Sections I–IV: Overview, Arguments For and Against Agency Governance, Privatization
→ Why We Need the Administrative State — covers the policy rationale for the administrative state and the standard criticisms, pairing with Sections II–IV.

Section V: Londoner and Bi-Metallic
→ Rulemaking vs. Adjudication — covers the Londoner/Bi-Metallic distinction and its downstream procedural consequences.

Section VI: The Administrative Procedure Act
→ Notice and Comment Rulemaking — covers the APA’s § 553 process in plain language.
→ The Adjudication Spectrum — covers the APA’s adjudication framework and where different proceedings fall on the formal-to-informal spectrum.

Section I: Independent or Executive? (Myers through Seila Law and CFPB II)
→ Independent vs. Executive Agencies — covers the structural distinction.
→ The Removal Power — covers the doctrinal arc from Myers through Seila Law.
→ Trump v. Slaughter Explained: The Case That Ended Independent Agencies — brings the Humphrey’s Executor line into 2026, which the casebook’s coverage anticipates but cannot fully address.

Section II: Limits on Presidential Power (OIRA, Budget, Emoluments, Immigration)
→ Two Executive Orders, Two Very Different Days in Court: Birthright Citizenship and Mail Voting — current application of how presidential power is tested through agencies in 2025–26.

Section III: Legal Drafting and the Delegation Doctrine
→ The Nondelegation Doctrine Explained — covers Panama Refining, Schechter, and the modern revival through Gundy.
→ The Intelligible Principle Explained — covers the test from J.W. Hampton through Whitman v. American Trucking.
→ Delegation of Power Explained — covers the general principle of delegation and why Congress delegates in the first place.

Section IV: Congressional Intent v. Congressional Text (King v. Burwell)
→ The Major Questions Doctrine Explained — covers King v. Burwell as a major-questions precursor and the development of the doctrine through West Virginia v. EPA and Biden v. Nebraska.

Section VI: Expansion of Agency Power and Delegation (Brown & Williamson, City of Arlington, Utility Air)
→ The Major Questions Doctrine Explained — covers the Brown & Williamson lineage.
→ The Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Explained — the 2026 application of major-questions reasoning to IEEPA tariffs.

Section VIII: The 7th Amendment in Agency Enforcement (Jarkesy, Schor, Stern, Oil States)
→ Can a Federal Agency Fine You Without a Jury Trial? — covers Jarkesy’s holding and its doctrinal context.
→ Jarkesy Jumps to the FTC: Intuit v. FTC Explained — covers the first major extension of Jarkesy beyond the SEC.

Sections I–III: Need for Rules, Nature and Substance of Rules, Formal Rulemaking
→ Notice and Comment Rulemaking — covers rulemaking as a category and the formal/informal distinction that Florida East Coast decided.

Section IV.A–B: Informal Rules and Notice-and-Comment Requirements
→ Notice and Comment Rulemaking — covers the § 553 requirements and the “logical outgrowth” test.

Section IV.C: Good Cause Exception (including Corner Post)
→ Corner Post and Regulatory Finality — covers Corner Post’s holding and its dramatic expansion of the APA statute of limitations.

Section IV.D: Rulemaking, Records, and Review (Morton v. Ruiz, State Farm, DACA, Ohio v. EPA)
→ The Administrative Record Explained: What the Judge Is Allowed to Look At — covers what the administrative record is and how the census case (Dept. of Commerce v. New York) tested its boundaries.

Section I: Overview of the Adjudicatory Process
→ The Lifecycle of an Administrative Case — walks through an administrative adjudication from start to finish.
→ The Adjudication Spectrum — covers when a formal hearing is required and what “formal” means.

Section II.A: From Right/Privilege to Liberty/Property (Goldberg, Thuraissigiam)
→ Due Process Explained — covers the shift from the right/privilege distinction to the modern due process framework.
→ Due Process, Habeas Corpus, and Immigration Right Now — applies due process doctrine to current immigration enforcement, including Thuraissigiam’s procedural implications.

Section II.B: Liberty and Property Defined and Refined (Roth, Sindermann)
→ Property Interests and What Counts as “Property” — covers Roth and Sindermann and the “entitlements” framework.

Section II.C: What Process Is Due? (Mathews, Loudermill)
→ The Mathews Balancing Test Explained — walks through the three-part test and its application.

Section VI: Evidence in Adjudicatory Proceedings (Richardson v. Perales, Biestek)
→ Why Two Identical Disability Cases Can Have Opposite Outcomes — covers the practical realities of evidence and credibility determinations in agency adjudication.
→ How Social Security Disability Hearings Work — provides the procedural context for Richardson and Biestek.

Section VII: Basic Agency Obligations (Overton Park, Nova Scotia, LTV)
→ The Administrative Record Explained — covers Overton Park’s record-review framework.

Section I: Standing (Lujan, Summers, Patchak, Lexmark)
→ Standing Explained: Why the Crocodile Case Decides Who Can Sue a Federal Agency — covers Lujan and the modern three-part standing framework.
→ When “I Want to Look at the White House” Isn’t Enough: The Ballroom Standing Ruling — current application of standing to a 2025 Supreme Court case.

Section II: Redressability (Simon, Johnson v. Becerra, Duke Power, Bennett v. Spear)
→ Standing Explained — covers redressability as the third prong.

Section III: Finality (Home Builders, Abbott, Toilet Goods, Hawkes)
→ Finality Explained: When Has the Agency Actually Done Something You Can Sue About? — covers Bennett v. Spear’s two-part test and Sackett’s application.

Section I: Historic Limitations (Vermont Yankee)
→ Judicial Review of Agency Action: The Machinery Behind What Everyone Calls Error Correction — covers the architecture of APA § 706 review and what Vermont Yankee limits.

Section II–III: Deference, Chevron, Loper Bright
→ Chevron, Skidmore, and Loper Bright: How Courts Review Agency Decisions — the core three-episode arc covering the entire deference doctrine from origins through the end of Chevron in 2024.

Section IV.A: The Major Questions Doctrine (West Virginia v. EPA, Biden v. Nebraska)
→ The Major Questions Doctrine Explained — covers West Virginia v. EPA and the MQD’s current scope.
→ The Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling Explained — current MQD application to presidential tariffs.

Section V: Skidmore Deference (Mead, De La Mota)
→ Chevron, Skidmore, and Loper Bright — covers Skidmore and the Mead “step zero” framework.

Section VIII: Preclusion of Judicial Review (Bowen v. Michigan Academy, Block, Lincoln v. Vigil, Webster)
→ Scope Limits Explained: When Courts Won’t Review Agency Action at All — covers statutory preclusion and the “committed to agency discretion” exception.

Section IX: Review of Agency Inaction (Heckler v. Chaney)
→ Scope Limits Explained — covers Chaney’s presumption of unreviewability for enforcement decisions and the Adams v. Richardson abdication exception.

Section X: Extraordinary Remedies (Massachusetts v. EPA)
→ Scope Limits Explained — covers Massachusetts v. EPA as the exception that proves the Chaney rule.

Section XI: Retroactive Agency Action (Chenery, Bowen v. Georgetown)
→ Agency Control of Adjudication — covers the Chenery doctrine and how agencies control decision-making processes.

Opening: Jarkesy
→ Can a Federal Agency Fine You Without a Jury Trial? — covers Jarkesy’s doctrinal foundations.

Section I: Exhaustion (McCarthy, Darby)
→ Ripeness, Exhaustion, and Mootness Explained — covers all three timing doctrines together.

Section II: Judicial Review Standards for Adjudication (Universal Camera, Hearst, Penasquitos, Cardoza-Fonseca)
→ Judicial Review of Agency Action — covers substantial evidence review and the standards for reviewing factual findings in adjudication.

Section I: The Decisionmakers (Morgan, Nash, Wong Yang Sung)
→ Who Decides: ALJs vs. Non-ALJs — covers the institutional distinction between ALJs and other agency adjudicators.
→ Why the Same Disability Claim Can Win or Lose Depending on Which Judge You Draw — covers variation in ALJ decision-making and what accounts for it.

Section II: Separation of Functions (Withrow)
→ When the Agency Reviews Itself: How Internal Appeals Actually Work — covers the institutional separation-of-functions doctrine in practice.

Section III: Conflict of Interest, Recusal, Prejudgment (Cheney, Schweiker)
→ Agency Control of Adjudication — covers the mechanisms by which agencies maintain decisional independence (and the doctrines that limit it).

Section II: Detention, Immigration, and Administrative Hearings (Hamdi)
→ How Immigration Adjudication Actually Works — covers the structure of the immigration adjudication system.
→ When a Judge Is Told to Reverse Her Own Decisions: The Annandale Immigration Court Case — covers the ongoing Accardi doctrine litigation in immigration court.
→ Mullin v. Doe: Immigration Procedures Unenforceable — covers the 2026 Supreme Court case on enforcement of agency procedures.
→ Due Process, Habeas Corpus, and Immigration Right Now — current application of due process and habeas doctrines.

Section III: Social Security–adjacent Due Process (DeShaney, Castle Rock)
→ Property Interests and What Counts as “Property” — covers the entitlements question that drives both DeShaney and Castle Rock.

The podcast doesn’t yet have a dedicated FOIA episode. The Administrative Record Explained page touches on FOIA Exemption 5 and the deliberative process privilege, which is responsive to Chapter 10 Section IV (The Exemptions). A full FOIA episode is on the production roadmap.