Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have

Parrillo’s Article “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy” documents variation across industries in how frequently companies and their trade associations sue their federal health-and-safety regulators. This dataset page contains the Article’s Methodological Appendix (in PDF), which explains how the author and research team searched for relevant lawsuits using the Bloomberg Law dockets database and how they identified industry challengers, agency actions under challenge, and challenger companies’ parent companies—as well as how the author conducted interviews. This dataset page also contains Excel files with the data on which the Article relies. Most of the Excel files consist of the results of Bloomberg Law dockets database searches for lawsuits, plus information about individual lawsuits and challengers gathered by the author and research team; each of these files includes a tab titled “Lawsuits” that includes a row for each lawsuit, plus a tab titled “Sources and Ordering” that explains how the lawsuit results were obtained from Bloomberg and ordered. The remaining Excel files consist of other relevant data on which the Article relies, especially information about companies or agency operations in certain of the areas studied. Citations in the Article are to the Dataset by File number and then (often) by Row number; each Excel file’s filename begins with the File number referenced in the Article.