5 U.S.C. § 101
Executive departments
The Executive departments are:
The Department of State.
The Department of the Treasury.
The Department of Defense.
The Department of Justice.
The Department of the Interior.
The Department of Agriculture.
The Department of Commerce.
The Department of Labor.
The Department of Health and Human Services.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Department of Transportation.
The Department of Energy.
The Department of Education.
The Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Department of Homeland Security.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 163
cases (19 in the last 5 years), 1973–2025 · leading case: Freytag v. Comm'r, 501 U.S. 868 (1991).
Freytag v. Comm'r, 501 U.S. 868 (1991). “It quotes a congressional Committee Report that seemingly equates Cabinet status with inclusion within the statutory defintion of "`department'" in 5 U. S. C. § 101 , ante, at 887 (quoting H.”
The United States v. Patrick J. Connolly, 716 F.2d 882 (Fed. Cir. 1983). “719 (1970), the Postal Service has not been considered one of the “executive departments” within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. § 101 (1982). See Pub.L. No. 91-375, § 6 (c), 84 Stat.”
Peggy Maloney v. Exec. Off. of the President, Off. of Admin., 2022 MSPB 26 (MSPB 2022). “7 listed in 5 U.S.C. § 101 . A Government corporation, according to 5 U.”
PHH Corp. v. Consum. Fin. Prot. Bureau, 881 F.3d 75 (D.C. Cir. 2018). “§ 19 (d)(1), and their agencies are specifically denoted as “Executive departments,” 5 U.S.C. § 101 . There is thus little prospect that Congress could require the President to tolerate a Cabinet that is not fully and directly accountable to him.”
United States v. Grace Lorine Lester, 541 F.2d 499 (5th Cir. 1976). “§ 301 11 authorized heads of the Executive Department to promulgate regulations to govern their departments and 5 U.S.C.A. § 101 12 identified the Post Office Department as an Executive Department.”
Aracely v. Nielsen, 319 F. Supp. 3d 110 (D.C. Cir. 2018). “5 U.S.C. §§ 101 - 913. It permits a court to "compel agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed," and to "hold unlawful and set aside agency action, findings and conclusions found to be arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance…”
Drg Funding Corp. v. Sec'y of Hous. & Urban Dev., 76 F.3d 1212 (D.C. Cir. 1996). “Moreover, the definitions section states that “United States includes an agency of the United States,” and “agency” means, among other things, “an Executive department” or “Government corporation” as defined in 5 U.S.C. §§ 101 or 103. 24 CFR § 17.60 (b).”
Gonzalez Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Reno, 86 F. Supp. 2d 1167 (S.D. Fla. 2000). “2d 714 (1985), in which the Supreme Court found that agency decisions not to institute enforcement proceedings generally are not subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq. In so holding, the Court declared that “an agency’s…”
Gary Jackson v. Thomas Modly, 949 F.3d 763 (D.C. Cir. 2020). “See 5 U.S.C. §§ 101 , et seq. Title 5 defines “military departments” as “The Department of the Army.”
United States v. Espy, 989 F. Supp. 17 (D.D.C. 1997). “Section 6 provides that unless the “context shows” otherwise, for all Title 18, offenses, “department” means one of the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. § 101 . 36 Hubbard, 514 U.S. at 700 , 115 S.”
John Doe v. United States, 853 F.3d 792 (5th Cir. 2017). “The DOJ is listed as an “Executive department ]” in 5 U.S.C. § 101 , and an “Executive department” is included as an “Executive agency” in 5 U.”
Dist. of Columbia v. United States, 67 Fed. Cl. 292 (Fed. Cl. 2005). “” 5 U.S.C. § 101 . Because it is an executive department, the Department of the Treasury is also an “Executive agency.”
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