Supreme Court is ready to upend the so-called Chevron doctrine, which established a two-step process for judicial review of agency interpretations of statutes. Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden said there had been an "explosion of articles" from law professors and legal think tanks in ...
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 petitioners seek to overturn or greatly limit a 39-year-old Supreme Court case,Chevron vs. Natural Resources Defense Council. That ruling said that if a federal law is silent or ambiguous on a specific question, courts should defer to government agencies’ interpretation of the statute. Adv...
DiscardingChevron.One option for the Court is eliminating theChevrondoctrine altogether. If the Court takes this approach, the law would likely revert to the rule set forth in the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case ofSkidmore v. Swift & Co., which credits an agency's interpretation ...
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 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that courts may no longer defer to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute so long as that interpretation is reasonable, a practice that had been known as Chevron deference.
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 US Supreme Court on June 28 decided Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, overruling the Chevron doctrine that for four decades has required federal courts to defer to administrative agencies’ interpretations
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted review of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,1 which may determine the fate of the deference doctrine established in Chevron2 in 1984. The issue in Loper is whether the Court should overrule Chevron, or limit or clarify the applicability of requiring deference...