Robert R. Snyder v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.

• Did the California corrections agency exceed the bounds of its statutory authority when they wrote an administrative regulation without any sort of predicate timeframe? • Can a state law without a timeframe for property reissuance, pass the reasonableness test? What would constitute an unreasonable delay in that context? • Can review courts safely defer to administrative interpretation that does not exist? Does the omission of a substantive predicate—to guide decision makers— constitute an ambiguity and/or a failure to interpret (the governing authority) for Chevron purposes? • Does an agency actually possess discretion to promulgate and then refuse to amend.., one sided administrative codes—those which result in casual and often deprivations of prisoner’s chattels? • Is the term ministerial duty strictly limited to the text of agency-regulations—under a state's administrative procedures—or can it be derived also from duties arising out of statutory and/or constitutional provisions?