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Summary

The court held that Carpenter Farms could proceed with a declaratory-judgment claim challenging the Commission's alleged failure to adopt or justify departure from required model rules and with an equal-protection claim alleging disparate treatment. It dismissed claims seeking judicial review of the Commission's application of its own rules or its disqualification decision under the Administrative Procedure Act's adjudication-review provision, and it rejected the Commission's internal rule as an independent jurisdictional basis. The court affirmed in part, reversed and dismissed in part, and remanded with instructions to limit the complaint to the permitted claims.