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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73

§1366 Court review

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 35— - AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part Part C— - Administrative Provisions › Subpart subpart i— - publication and review of quotas › § 1366

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Courts only decide legal questions and do not re‑decide the facts. If the review committee’s facts are supported by evidence, the court must accept them as final. If someone asks to add new evidence and the court agrees it is important and there was a good reason it wasn’t offered earlier, the court can order the committee to take that evidence under rules the court sets. The committee can change its facts or decision and must file those changes. The court will rule on the case using the committee’s record (plus any new evidence) and will either uphold the committee’s decision if it follows the law or send the case back with instructions to correct it or to do more proceedings the court orders.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1366

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The review by the court shall be limited to questions of law, and the findings of fact by the review committee, if supported by evidence shall be conclusive. If application is made to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for failure to adduce such evidence in the hearing before the review committee, the court may direct such additional evidence to be taken before the review committee in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to the court may seem proper. The review committee may modify its findings of fact or its determination by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and it shall file with the court such modified findings or determination, which findings of fact shall be conclusive. The court shall hear and determine the case upon the original record of the hearing before the review committee, and upon such record as supplemented if supplemented, by further hearing before the review committee pursuant to direction of the court. The court shall affirm the review committee’s determination, or modified determination, if the court determines that the same is in accordance with law. If the court determines that such determination or modified determination is not in accordance with law, the court shall remand the proceeding to the review committee with direction either to make such determination as the court shall determine to be in accordance with law or to take such further proceedings as, in the court’s opinion, the law requires.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–620 substituted “The court” for “At the earliest convenient time, the court, in term time or vacation,”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1984 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 98–620 not applicable to cases pending on Nov. 8, 1984, see section 403 of Pub. L. 98–620, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 1657 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1366

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73