United States Sixth Circuit

Interpretive letters issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Chief Counsel are advisory opinions and thus not "final agency action" subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act. The Chief Counsel is authorized to issue advisory opinions in response to inquiries from the public.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/23/2003
• Decided 02/11/2004
• Published 02/11/2004

Judges

• Before KEITH, MARTIN, and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel L. Pulter (argued and briefed), David M. Lick (briefed), Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, Lansing, MI, for Appellant., Reginald Rose, III (briefed), Montgomery, AL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lloyd Guerci (briefed), National Highway Traffic Safety Admin., Washington, DC, Michael Jay Singer (briefed), Peter R. Maier (argued and briefed), U.S. Dept. of Justice Civ. Div., Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Appellee.