which essentially means that if a legal statute is ambiguous and an agency has a reasonable interpretation of this statute, courts are required to defer to the agency’s interpretation. Simply put: If the law wasn’t clear, the courts sided with the agency’s interpretation as long as it...
four decades into theChevronexperiment, the Court still had not arrived at a clear definition of ambiguity — or, as Justice Scalia put it in a law review article, “How clear
[2]参见:https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chevron_deference [3]参见:https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20211015 [4]参见:https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/22mj00067CriminalOpinion.pdf [5]参见:http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf [6]参见:https://...
[2] 参见:https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chevron_deference [3] 参见:https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20211015 [4] 参见:https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/22mj00067CriminalOpinion.pdf [5] 参见:...
As a result, in disputes regarding statutory interpretation, courts have deferred to reasonable agency interpretations of law for the last four decades. OverturningChevron The Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling to overturn the Chevron doctrine(opens a new window)came in two cases challenging the...
The US Supreme Court’s June 28, 2024 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce overruled the forty-year-old Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. decision, one of the most-cite
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. ...
law.The Supreme Court'sreversal of the Chevron decisionalso further demonstrates the willingness of its six-justice conservative majority to jettison decades of past rulings. In June 2022, the courtoverturned Roe v. Wade, dismantling the constitutional right to abortion, and in June 2023, it...
[is] to say what the law is.”Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 177 (1803). The Court’s lookback also detailed how, “from the outset,” federal courts have “recognized … that exercising independent judgment often included according due respect to Executive Branch interpretations of ...
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...