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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 31 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management.

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1 Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management Anchor
scotus · 1985
green “there has been a substantial departure from important procedural rights, a misconstruction of the governing legislation, or some like error 'going to the heart of the administrative determination.” 27
2 Larry M. Smith v. Office of Personnel Management
cafc · 1986
green “the sufficiency of the evidentiary support for the board's decision ordinarily would not be viewed as a question of procedural rights or construction of legislation, or analogous or comparable to those questions.” 4

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