Supreme Court decision in the case Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council on the treatment for substance use disorder (SUD). Topics include description made by Chief Justice John Roberts on the Chevron doctrine and implication of the case brought by Loper Bright ...
The US Supreme Court’s decision on June 28 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce has overruled the longstanding Chevron doctrine that required courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of a statute it administers when the statute ...
Nobody can say for sure what the Supreme Court will do in the Loper case. But we can say this: There is nothing in the Constitution or in its history that justifies shifting the power to fill gaps in a statute from a government agency in the executive branch to the judiciary, provided ...
The Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling to overturn the Chevron doctrine(opens a new window)came in two cases challenging the 1984 decision:Loper Bright Enterprises v. RaimondoandRelentless, Inc v. Department of Commerce. By a 6-3 margin, the court overruledChevron, holding that courts must...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could reverse -- or at least narrow -- the longstanding Chevron doctrine, which grants EPA and other federal agencies discretion to reasonably interpret ambiguous statutory language.
ChevronDoctrine Overturned: What's Next? The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Chevron deference could transform how courts handle federal agency-related cases for decades. Overview Publications Webinars In the News Have Questions? Let's Talk!
Chevron doctrine has been applied by lower courts in thousands of cases. The Supreme Court itself has invoked the framework to uphold agencies' interpretations of statutes at least 70 times, but not since 2016. Roberts wrote for the court that its decision reversing Chevron would not call those...
THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION InLoper BrightandRelentless, the Court first concluded that the Chevron doctrine was inconsistent with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the general rule that courts “say what the law is,” citingMarbury v. Madison.The Court went on to e...
The doctrine has been challenged in a pair of cases that remain pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, and a decision will likely be issued by early July 2024. The two cases –Loper Bright Enterprises v. RaimondoandRelentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce– involve a rule ...
In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States overruled the doctrine ofChevrondeference, which had been a hallmark of administrative law for the past four decades. Under theChevrondoctrine, courts deferred to a federal agency’s interpretation of an “ambiguous” stat...