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Client Alert: Loper Bright Matters: Fifth Circuit Vacates Agency Action That Had Survived Under Chevron Deference

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In a long-awaited decision in Restaurant Law Center v. US Department of Labor, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a US Department of Labor (DOL) regulation governing the way tipped employees are paid,...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

No Surprises Here!  Fifth Circuit Upholds Health Care Provider Challenge to No Surprises Act Regulations

In a recent win for health care providers, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s decision to vacate key portions of regulations issued by the U.S. Departments of Treasury,...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

In Rawat, DC Circuit construes the Code and regulations without deference, providing an example of statutory and regulatory...

On July 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Court of Appeals) released a decision in Rawat v. Commissioner (available here). The case considers whether the portion of a non-US...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Appeals Court Holds ECOA Liability Extends to Prospective Applicants

On July 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its highly anticipated decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Townstone Financial, Inc., et al. In this pivotal decision, the...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

California Employment Law Notes - July 2024

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Employee Who Wanted To Donate/Freeze Her Eggs Was Not Protected By Pregnancy Statute - Paleny v. Fireplace Products U.S., Inc., 103 Cal. App. 5th 199 (2024) - Erika Paleny alleged harassment, discrimination and...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Assessing the Impact of Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Section 337 Practice – Less than Meets the Eye?

Late last month, the Supreme Court issued two opinions which seemingly shook up the field of administrative law.  As explained in this article, however, while both decisions bear significantly on certain administrative...more

Goldberg Segalla

The Fishing Case that Could Put the Chevron Doctrine Out to Sea

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On January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451, an environmental-law dispute concerning fishery management in federal waters....more

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This never-ending NIMBY challenge to the Vineyard Wind project illustrates that we may be winning renewable energy battles but...

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Over two years ago I wrote about a lawsuit filed by a Connecticut-based solar farm developer with a summer home in Martha's Vineyard seeking to enjoin the Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts coast. This particular...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Rough Seas Ahead? Supreme Court to Reconsider Chevron Doctrine

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The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to reconsider the Chevron doctrine, which instructs courts to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that US Congress delegated to the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Will the Supreme Court Say “Farewell” to the Chevron Doctrine?

The Chevron Doctrine -- what is often referred to as “Chevron deference” – is based on the precedent set by the Supreme Court about four decades ago, which some argue has overly empowered the administrative state (the full...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Evolving Landscape of Administrative Law

One of the most significant areas of the law for businesses is administrative law. From questions about a new industry-specific regulation to marshaling a defense against enforcement proceedings, any entity that is subject to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Pending Supreme Court Decision in AHA v. Becerra May Be Felt Well Beyond the Healthcare Industry

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By July 2022, the US Supreme Court is expected to release its opinion in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, a case that not only has significant ramifications for healthcare providers but may also impacts the deference...more

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Supreme Court Places Another Limitation on Chevron Deference

The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States have again limited the reach of Chevron deference. On May 28, 2019, the Court in Smith v. Berryhill carved another exception into what has lately proven to be its...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

TCPA Roundup: A Week of Blockbuster News from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, the FCC, and a Few District Courts

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If you follow daily TCPA news like we do, your head is probably spinning from this week’s developments. We normally digest TCPA developments for our readers in a monthly e-newsletter....more

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SCOTUS Decision in Unsolicited Fax Case Could Have Broader TCPA Implications

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The U.S. Supreme Court's grant this week of the petition for certiorari in a case involving the Telephone Communication Protection Act (TCPA) prohibition on unsolicited fax advertisements could have significant implications...more

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More Trouble for Chevron Deference

Chevron deference is increasingly coming under fire from the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. That came through loud and clear in Pereira v. Sessions, issued on June 21, 2018....more

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Groundhog Day Comes Early For West Coast Auto Dealers: Another Loss In Service Advisor Exemption Battle

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In a disappointing but perhaps unsurprising decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals once again ruled that service advisors employed by automobile dealerships do not qualify for the Section 13(b)(10)(A) overtime exemption...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Environmental Case Law Update

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Many important environmental and administrative law decisions were reported by the federal and state courts over the past six months. The courts are dealing with very...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Supreme Court’s Environmental and Administrative Law Decisions in 2015-2016 Term

This Advisory briefly reports on some of the significant U.S. Supreme Court actions from January through June 2016 related to environmental and administrative law. ...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Supreme Court Upholds the PTAB’s Status Quo in Cuozzo

On June 20, 2016, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, which unanimously upheld the “broadest reasonable construction” claim construction standard (BRI) used by the Patent Trial and...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Supreme Court Maintains Status Quo on Broadest Reasonable Claim Interpretation Test and Non-Appealability of Institution Decisions

On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee, No. 15-4461, an appeal of an institution and cancellation decision in the first-ever petition for inter partes review...more

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Supreme Court Defers to the Patent Office on Institution and Management of Post-Grant Proceedings

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In Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, the Supreme Court handed a victory to the Patent Office, affirming its broad discretion in the institution and management of post-issuance proceedings created by the Leahy-Smith...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Supreme Court Affirms Cuozzo – Leaving in Place BRI and Judicial Review Limitation for IPR Proceedings

In Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, No. 15-446, the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Circuit’s holdings on claim construction and the scope of judicial review in an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Defers to Patent Office on IPR Procedure, Cuozzo Speed Tech., LLC v. Lee

The United States Supreme Court decided today that: (1) the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) acted within its rulemaking authority by adopting the rule that patent claims must be given their “broadest...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee (2016)

In its first pronouncement regarding the post-grant reviewing proceedings established by the America Invents Act ("AIA"), the Supreme Court ruled that the Patent and Trademark Office's positions on two of the law's provisions...more

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