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Employee benefit and employment law regulations after Loper Bright

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

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The Impact of Chevron’s Demise on the Regulation of PFAS

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On June 28, 2024, in its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Raimondo, et al., the U.S. Supreme Court held that its longstanding precedent granting deference to administrative agencies established in the 1984...more

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Chevron, Energy and the Pivotal Shift

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

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Two U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Will Affect the Securities Industry

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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently issued two opinions that are likely to have a longer-term effect on the way securities industry matters are handled. Juries, not the Securities Exchange Commission...more

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Supreme Court Ends Chevron Deference Among String of Decisions Limiting Agency Power

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In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court overruled the doctrine of Chevron deference but made clear that cases relying on Chevron’s interpretive framework remain good law subject to statutory stare decisis. ...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron Doctrine—What You Need to Know

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On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overturning Chevron USA v. National Resources Defense Council and the federal judiciary's forty-year-old practice of...more

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Overturning Chevron: Supreme Court Requires Agency Ambiguity To Be Interpreted in Courts

On June 28, in a 6-3 decision of Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al., 603 U.S. ___ (2024), the Supreme Court overturned a 40-year precedent known as “Chevron deference,” which required...more

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Environmental Law in a Post-Chevron World

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Last week, Venable’s Government Division offered its general thoughts on the fallout from the Supreme Court’s reversal of the long-standing Chevron deference principle. Here, the Environmental Practice Group offers some of...more

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Supreme Court Overturns 40 Year Precedent: New Legal Challenges to Agency Regulations Likely

On Friday, June 28th, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that severely limits the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they enforce. The decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo requires courts to...more

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SCOTUS Speaks: Agency Deference is Out, Judicial Independence is In

The decision by the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) on June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U. S. ____ (2024) (“Loper”) reads simply: “The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise...more

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The Cost of Ambiguity: Post-Chevron Compliance Could Be Expensive

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In a landmark decision issued on June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court in Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce (“Loper Bright”) overturned the Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. National...more

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Chevron is Done — What Does Loper mean for the PTAB and ITC?

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In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court expressly overruled Chevron USA Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. This landmark 6-3 ruling ends nearly 40-years of Chevron deference, the doctrine of...more

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Supreme Court’s 2024 Term Could Transform Labor and Employment Law

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At the end of its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down four decisions limiting the power of federal agencies. While none of those decisions involved a labor and employment agency, all of them could transform labor...more

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Supreme Court Overrules Chevron, Removes Thumb on Scale for Federal Agencies

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In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,[1] the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a forty-year-old precedent that placed a thumb on the scale in favor of federal agencies’ interpretations of federal laws.  In doing so, it...more

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron: What Now?

On June 28, the United States Supreme Court overturned a decades-old precedent, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837, a ruling that instructed judges about when they could defer to federal...more

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"A Massive Shock to the Legal System": Supreme Court Supermajority Significantly Curtails Administrative Agency Authority in Loper...

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In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled the Chevron doctrine, fundamentally altering the landscape of administrative law and significantly impacting federal tax administration. Six justices, with Chief Justice...more

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Supreme Court Decides Judges, Not Agencies, Will Interpret the Law

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. ____ (2024). the Supreme Court overturned Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 467 U.S. 837 (1984). In so doing, the Court affirmed the fundamental...more

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In Blow to Federal Agency Powers, SCOTUS Overturns Chevron

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On Friday, June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed decades of increased federal executive agency power by overturning the longstanding deference to agency interpretations of statutes that resulted from...more

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Nine Questions, Nine Answers: The Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling ‘Chevron Deference’

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On the second-to-last day of its term, the US Supreme Court issued its decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dep’t of Commerce. These decisions overruled Chevron USA. v. National Resource...more

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Supreme Court Upends Chevron Doctrine in Landmark Decision

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On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, and a companion case entitled Relentless, Inc. v. Raimondo, that upended a 40-year-old paradigm of judicial review of federal...more

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Loper Bright v. Raimondo

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U.S. Supreme Court overrules Chevron and restores courts’ obligation to exercise independent judgment - On June 28, 2024, in one of the last decisions of the Term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in...more

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Chevron Overturned: No Judicial Deference to Agencies in Interpreting Statutes

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“How clear is clear?” asked Justice Antonin Scalia, famously. On Friday, the Supreme Court made absolutely clear that Chevron is dead. Judicial deference to agency interpretations of statutory ambiguities is no longer the law...more

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Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Deference, Lets Courts Exercise Their Own Independent Judgment

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The U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron deference in its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on June 28, 2024. Chevron – a central doctrine of administrative law – had stood since 1984....more

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With Chevron Gone What Comes Next?

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The Supreme Court took the long-anticipated step of overruling Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837 (1984). The majority decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo means that...more

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The End of Chevron: Administrative Power Shifts to the Courts

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The United States Supreme Court has effectively vanquished the Chevron doctrine, which has governed the power of federal agencies to interpret federal statutes for the last 40 years. In recent years, the Chevron doctrine has...more

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