United States Ninth Circuit

The Bureau of Prisons violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it adopted an interim regulation pertaining to an early release incentive program for federal prisoners who had successfully completed a substance abuse program.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2005
• Decided 06/27/2005
• Published 06/27/2005

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge., Before BEEZER, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas M. Gannon, Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondents-appellants., Stephen R. Sady, Chief Deputy Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR, for the petitioners-appellees.