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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Farewell, Chevron: Navigating Corporate Regulation Under Loper Bright

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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

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

Balch & Bingham LLP

Making Sense Of The Demise Of Chevron Deference After Loper Bright

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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

Foley & Lardner LLP

The Supreme Court Changes Basic Tenets of Administrative Law - Complicating the Environmental Protection Agency’s Ability to...

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In a trio of cases, the Supreme Court has changed the balance of power between courts and federal agencies. The combination of these three cases will likely lead to significant litigation in multiple courts, repeated...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

A Brave New World: The Supreme Court Torpedoes the 'Administrative State'

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

Rumberger | Kirk

SCOTUS Overturns Chevron Deference – With Immediate Impact

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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

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Potential Impacts on the Natural Resources Industry After Chevron Overturn

On June 28, the Supreme Court abrogated the Chevron doctrine that has guided courts’ review of agency actions for the past 40 years. Chevron mandated that courts defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Chevron Is Out of Gas: The End of Deference to Agency Interpretations

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

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

The Fall of the Chevron Doctrine: Implications for Ports and Maritime Clients

Over the last forty years the Chevron doctrine, established by the Supreme Court in Chevron U.S.A, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), has been a pillar of administrative law in the United...more

Dechert LLP

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Supreme Court’s Overruling of Chevron Deference to Administrative Agencies’ Interpretations of Statutes Will Invite 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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Chevron ‘Sleeps with the Fishes': US Supreme Court Sinks Deference to Agency Interpretation of Statutes

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

Proskauer Rose LLP

The End of Chevron

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When an ambiguity exists in a statute for which Congress has not chosen among the reasonable readings, who decides which possible reading should govern? For nearly four decades, courts have followed the rule of Chevron...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

The death of Chevron

You may be asking. What is Chevron deference? How did it die? Why should I care? All fair questions. I will start by answering the last one. If you own, operate, or manage a business covered by the complex web of federal...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Implications of Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Administrative, Environmental and Natural Resources Law

The final days of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term saw the release of several decisions that may – or may not, depending on one’s perspective and desired strategy – hold significant implications for administrative law...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

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

Woods Rogers

Supreme Court Ends Judicial Deference to Agencies’ Regulatory Interpretation

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For the past forty years, governmental agencies enjoyed a strong deference by the courts regarding challenges to their legal authority to develop and implement regulations. This deference made it difficult for the regulated...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron Deference, Changing the Landscape of Agency Rulemaking

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

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

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

Saul Ewing LLP

Supreme Court Overrules 40-Year-Old Chevron Deference, Restores Final Statutory Interpretative Power To Courts; Expect More...

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On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the United States Supreme Court reversed its 40-year-old decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, thereby restoring the judiciary’s final authority...more

Butler Snow LLP

Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Decision Likely to Bolster State Trend of Abandoning Chevron Deference

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In a 6-3 ruling, the United States Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, overruled the longstanding precedent that federal courts were to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous federal laws....more

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U.S. Overturns Chevron Doctrine

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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

King & Spalding

Supreme Court Overturns Chevron in Landmark Decision with Broad Implications for Medicare Reimbursement Litigation

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On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo that overturned the Chevron Doctrine, which requires courts to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, thereby...more

Snell & Wilmer

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss? The End of Chevron Deference and Its Impact on Employee Benefits

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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

Stoel Rives - Environmental Law Blog

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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