A win for business. The Supreme Court ends Chevron Deference in a spate of recent decisions limiting administrative authority and assisting regulated parties in challenging agency rulemaking. Loper Bright and Relentless-...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
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 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court overruled its long-standing Chevron doctrine and delivered a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by vesting statutory interpretation in the judiciary....more
On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo that overturned the “Chevron deference” standard laid out in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overrule its 1984 Chevron opinion means that when reviewing agency interpretation of a statute, courts now must exercise their independent judgment as to whether an agency acted...more
Chevron is out of gas. For the past 40 years, Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (Chevron), was the seminal case of administrative law holding that federal courts defer to agency’s interpretations of...more
On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which for 40 years required court deference to reasonable agency...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 issued its long-awaited decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce—overruling the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine. The opinion is likely to set...more
The United States Supreme Court ended the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine which directed federal courts to give deference to administrative agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous federal statutes. The June 28, 2024...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
\On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo removing the requirement that federal courts defer to agency interpretations on matters of law. This decision overrules the...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a number of decisions over the past few days that impact administrative agencies, including the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”). The biggest impact is anticipated to come from the...more
On Friday, SCOTUS issued its decision in two very important cases, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dept of Commerce, about whether the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has the authority to...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
The decision establishes that courts, not federal regulatory agencies, have final authority over the meaning of federal laws implicating those agencies and the limits on their authority. On June 28, 2024, the US Supreme...more
On June 28, 2024, in a maximalist decision that went further than even the most ardent opponents of Chevron deference thought possible, the Supreme Court finally and emphatically overruled Chevron deference, the watershed...more
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling overturning “Chevron deference,” a tool for interpreting ambiguous statutes administered by administrative agencies. The 40-year-old Chevron doctrine held...more
At the tail end of the 2023–24 term, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce—reversing the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine....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
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the decades-old Chevron doctrine of judicial deference to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, No. 22-451, and Relentless, Inc. v....more
In a landmark decision on June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo (Loper Bright), overturning the four-decades-old deference doctrine established in Chevron...more
On Friday Supreme Court the Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling that will strip federal administrative agencies of a significant amount of power. In brief, the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo...more
In a landmark ruling Friday, the United States Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which for 40 years has required federal courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its...more