The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term is another chapter in the Roberts Court’s trend of shifting power away from administrative agencies and into the hands of courts....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
“Chevron is overruled,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, because “[t]he deference that Chevron requires of courts reviewing agency action cannot be squared with the [Administrative...more
This summer, the Supreme Court ended its term shortly after issuing game-changing rulings that modify the authority of federal agencies. Given the result of restraining agencies such as the FTC and FCC from interpreting and...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 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
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
The Supreme Court is at war with the “administrative state.” In three major cases decided at the end of the Supreme Court’s last term, the Court decided against the administrative state, reducing the powers of administrative...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
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, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce[1], overruling the Chevron doctrine. This holding overturns the decades-long...more
For nearly 40 years, when a court found that a statute was ambiguous, the court deferred to the reasonable interpretation of the federal agency administering the statute. This principle—known as Chevron deference, after the...more
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court published a landmark ruling that overturned decades of judicial deference to government agencies under the so-called Chevron doctrine. This decision fundamentally alters the landscape of...more
This past week was monumental for those subject to regulation by Federal administrative agencies. Over the course of 24 hours, the Supreme Court issued two rulings that have extensive implications for administrative agency...more
On Friday, June 28, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in one of the most consequential administrative law cases in decades. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (consolidated with Relentless v. Department of Commerce), the...more
“Landmark” perhaps gets applied too often to court decisions these days, but the Supreme Court of the United States this week decided a pair of cases—Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Securities and Exchange Commission...more
In the energy space, smaller companies are finding it harder to compete on their own and larger companies need more scale to improve operational efficiencies and boost shareholder value leading to many business...more