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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Zahn holds that state administrative agencies properly invoked the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to determine whether provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act that require legislative approval of pending administrative fee rules are constitutional. The State Athletic Commission and the Division of Occupational and Processional Licenses have standing to allege that the refusal by the state Administrative Rules Coordinator to publish their pending rules prevented them from fulfilling their statutory duties. However, the Commission and the Division are not entitled to mandamus relief because the Act requirement for legislative approval does not violate the Idaho Constitution's separation of powers provision. The authority of the executive branch to engage administrative rulemaking is not a constitutional power, as it was granted by the legislature.