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 2023-2024 Term of the United States Supreme Court will undoubtedly have far-reaching implications in a number of areas, but perhaps most significantly—at least for regular readers of the OSHA Defense Report blog—with...more
At the end of the 2024 term, the executive branch struck out when the US Supreme Court issued three separate decisions along ideological lines that have the potential to materially weaken the enforcement authority of federal...more
Why are environmental professionals talking about the Federal Reserve Board? Because the Supreme Court, on July 1, 2024, ruled that the APA’s six-year statute of limitations (SOL) for facial challenges to agency regulations...more
Over the last few weeks, the Supreme Court issued two long-awaited decisions that are each significant in their own right, but, together, will drastically reshape the future of litigation against administrative agencies—and...more
The Supreme Court has now concluded its most recent term, and in its final two days handed down two decisions with major implications in the area of administrative law (each by a 6-3 margin). And while their precise...more
This term, SCOTUS delivered two big wallops to the administrative state in the decisions eliminating Chevron deference (Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dept of Commerce, see this Pubco post) and...more
The Supreme Court’s recent term is likely to be remembered as one that significantly affected the long-standing roles and responsibilities of federal agencies, including the deference afforded to their interpretations of...more
In its last opinion of this term, the US Supreme Court in Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System significantly extended the timeframe in which courts can review certain current and future regulations....more
In Garland v. Cargill, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a rule that classifies bump stocks as “machineguns” under the...more
A Historic Term for Administrative Law - This month we wrote extensively on both the Loper Bright/Relentless decisions, which overturned the Chevron doctrine, and the Jarkesy decision, which dealt a significant blow to the...more
Recent Supreme Court administrative law rulings change the power dynamic between the executive and the judiciary in critical areas of statutory interpretation, enforcement, and immunity from legal challenge....more
In the final days of the term that just ended, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued two major decisions changing the federal regulation landscape – Loper Bright and Corner Post....more
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court overruled Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, Inc., and consequently invalidated the “Chevron Deference” — a cornerstone of administrative law since 1984. In the 6-3 decision...more
In a trilogy of cases decided at the end of this term, the United States Supreme Court made significant changes to the administrative law terrain by: eliminating Chevron deference....more
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court overruled the Chevron doctrine that had guided courts’ review of agency actions the past 40 years. The Chevron doctrine required courts to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable...more
In the final week of this year’s Supreme Court term, the Court issued several decisions that alter the role of federal agencies in the way laws are interpreted and enforced, and thus the way that business will be done in the...more
On June 28, the Supreme Court handed down Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overturned the prior Supreme Court precedent, articulated in Chevron v. Natural Resource Defense Council, Inc. and known as “the Chevron...more
In Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Supreme Court held the six-year statute of limitations under 28 U.S.C. §2401 for challenging federal agency action under the Administrative...more
In the consolidated cases Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron v. NRDC, the 1984 case that established the...more
Recent SCOTUS Decisions Expand Litigants’ Ability to Challenge Federal Agency Regulations - Federal agencies are under attack. Recent decisions from the United States Supreme Court are eroding long standing principles of...more
Federal agencies may need to call the bullpen for a relief pitcher after the last two weeks of hits delivered by the Supreme Court of the United States. The default limitations period for Administrative Procedure Act...more
On June 28, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Chevron doctrine, under which courts generally granted deference to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of ambiguous...more
For forty years, the Chevron doctrine, established in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), has been a cornerstone of administrative law in the United States. Under the...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued two opinions at the end of its term impacting environmental law. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Court held that courts must exercise independent judgment when determining if an...more