The bottom line is that Appalachian citizens need better protection than a non-binding agency guidance.
No central agency has binding authority over state boxing commissions.
While such recommendations are not binding, the agency often follows them.
It is clearly against the spirit, though not the letter, of one of the main laws binding the agency, the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which forbids the tapping of British phones without special approval.
The letter has no binding authority; it was the accumulated scientific analysis of the environmental agency.
But such recommendations are not binding, and the agency is deeply split, with some officials pushing for Avandia's withdrawal.
The panel's recommendation to the Food and Drug Administration is not binding, although the agency usually follows the recommendations of its outside experts.
Supporters of an earmark ban point out that unlike earmarks written into a spending bill, requests for financing made through letters, phone calls or other methods are not legally binding on an agency.
The principles of practical reason are constitutive principles of rational agency, binding on us insofar as we necessarily commit ourselves to complying with them in willing anything at all.
The opinion by the attorney general, Mike Cox, is binding on state agencies and officers unless reversed by the courts.
Though not binding on local agencies, the Obama administration views the guidelines as a road map, with Holder encouraging local law enforcement officials to adopt the federal policy.
