Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine – Part I
The End of Chevron Deference: Implications of the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Decision — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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On April 17, 2025, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act...more
I recently learned of Eli Lilly & Co.’s (“Lilly”) recent lawsuit against FDA from Nicole DeFeudis, who interviewed me for her Endpoints News story about the case. Lilly’s lawsuit, filed in September 2024 in the Southern...more
The incoming Trump Administration has strongly signaled its intent to narrow the role and scope of government regulation. Although aviation will always be subject to stringent and pervasive safety regulation, this post...more
Insider Trading Policies. As previously discussed in our Winter 2022-2023 Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules in December 2022 relating to insider trading policy...more
In the environmental space, 2024 has been a memorable year with regulatory efforts and court decisions touching on every aspect of environmental and energy regulation, capped out by a closely divided election....more
In its first merits decision this term, the Supreme Court provided a straightforward application of textualism to demonstrate that in cases challenging administrative action under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA),...more
Over the last six months, federal and state courts have been unwrapping the landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and navigating a new legal landscape that challenges...more
The legal landscape regarding federal agency authority fundamentally changed in 2024 with the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. This landmark case dismantles the Chevron deference standard,...more
Last term’s opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo was a landmark in the U.S. Supreme Court’s administrative law jurisprudence, overturning 40 years of Chevron deference with a pen stroke. The Loper Bright/Chevron...more
A new petition for certiorari filed by the United States urges the Supreme Court to stop lower courts from ordering “universal” preliminary relief under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). In recent years, the federal...more
On 28 June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning its decision in Chevron USA v. National Resources Defense Council, and with it, 40 years’...more
The U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overruled a 40-year-old case (Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.) that required courts to defer to agencies'...more
On September 6, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of KalshiEx LLC ("KalshiEx"), lifting a September 2023 order issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") prohibiting...more
When legal historians look back on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 term, the most eye-popping decisions will almost certainly be the immunity and ballot access claims lodged by former President Trump. Those opinions are,...more
In a proposed rule published on June 24, 2024, EPA has proposed to remove eighteen affirmative defense provisions for malfunctions associated with violations of New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission...more
EPA Proposes Removing Affirmative Defense Provisions from Eighteen Clean Air Act Emission Standards - In a proposed rule published on June 24, 2024, EPA has proposed to remove eighteen affirmative defense provisions for...more
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that overrules the “Chevron doctrine.” This means that federal agencies are limited in their ability to rely on their own interpretation of the laws they...more
In the September edition of our Public Company Watch, we cover key issues impacting public companies, including updates regarding the most recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporate Law and the EU’s Corporate...more
On June 28, in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, et al., the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference doctrine, a long-standing tenet of administrative law established in 1984 in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources...more
From 1984 until June 2024, a reviewing court had to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutes, even if the court would have interpreted the statute differently. In June 2024, the U.S. Supreme...more
Our recent webinar featured a conversation with noted legal scholars Craig Green, Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and Kent Barnett, recently appointed Dean of the...more
Testing the Waters: The Implications of Loper Bright on EPA’s New PFAS - Regulations - In the past year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) finalized several significant rules to regulate per- and...more
A recent Supreme Court ruling could further jeopardize EPA’s PFAS hazardous substance designation, as the agency is attempting to advance a novel use of delegated legislative authority to further regulate PFAS chemicals....more
For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court...more
The Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo1 has been described as accomplishing a seismic shift in administrative law. Rightly so. In the decision, the Court did away with so-called Chevron...more