Administrative Law
Chapter 4 -
Part 1
CHAPTER CAPSULE
The Chapter Overview compiles the basic client rights – the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments, and the Information Acts.
A. Introduction questions are designed to be broad in content
B. Constitutional Grounds explains the basis of citizens’ rights; due process
and fair, equal treatment with their application to agency actions.
C. Due Process underscores the change in interpretation from the original constitutional rights of life, liberty and property to today’s viewpoint, where welfare benefits are considered to be a constitutional right of property.
D. Right to Know and Right to Privacy explores the freedom to have information and the freedom to withhold information.
E. Agency Liability for Violations provides the various immunities available to government and citizens, and the acts that waive government immunity.
F. Fair and Workable Procedures comments on equal treatment by agencies to both sides of a conflict that leads to agency action.
The Chapter Summary balances the expansion of due process rights in social service agencies with the cost to government.
The Advanced Studies presents Consumer Safety and Immigration documents that will be factors in cases many paralegals help to prepare.