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
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
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
In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451 (U.S. June 28, 2024), the United States Supreme Court (Roberts, J.) held that the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) requires courts to independently determine whether an...more
In June 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court sunk what remained of Chevron deference. Under that doctrine, tracing back to the 1984 decision Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense...more
In general, courts—not the legislative or executive branches of government—interpret the law. But since 1984, the Supreme Court required federal courts to disregard their own interpretation of ambiguous federal statutes....more
On June 28, 2024, by a 6-2 majority, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Raimondo (“Loper Bright”) that is expected to fundamentally change the course of...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
The end of the Supreme Court’s recent term saw two major decisions in the field of administrative law: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Securities & Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. The Loper Bright decision, which...more
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce has raised questions regarding the future of financial services regulation, including by the US Securities and...more
In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, which overturned the 40-year-old doctrine of Chevron deference (see this PubCo post), SCOTUS highlighted the continued relevance of the doctrine articulated in Skidmore v. Swift & Co., often...more
Holtzman Vogel attorneys wrote on the Supreme Court's landmark Loper Bright decision earlier this month. The Court overruled its 1984 decision in Chevron v. NRDC that introduced the so-called "Chevron deference" principle...more
On June 28, 2024, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court overruled the four decade old case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. This pivotal decision should spur businesses to recalibrate their existing...more
In the US, the relationship between employers and employees is heavily regulated by statute at both the state and federal level, and the provision of employee benefits is also highly regulated, primarily at the federal level....more
The July Monthly Minute considers the impact of the Supreme Court’s Loper decision in overturning the longstanding Chevron deference standard, along with a district court case awarding penalties for failing to produce plan...more
Welcome to the seventh 2024 issue of Currents - our e-newsletter focused on energy topics. There are less than six months left for companies formed before January 1, 2024 to file their initial beneficial owner report...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
On June 28th, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron Doctrine. The 6-3 decision was anticipated. But its breadth marks the Court’s opinion as a modern-day Marbury v. Madison....more
The U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned the Chevron doctrine, a significant legal principle established by Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. For 40 years, lower courts have relied on the Chevron...more
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo that upends a longstanding feature of administrative law—Chevron deference. In Loper Bright, the Court expressly overruled...more
On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the legal system by overturning one of the foundational precedents of American administrative law. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Court, in a 6-3...more
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in a 6-3 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Case No. 22-452. As a result, courts will no longer need to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a...more