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...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could reverse -- or at least narrow -- the longstandingChevrondoctrine, which grants EPA and other federal agencies discretion to reasonably interpret ambiguous statutory language. The court May 1 granted a petition for awrit of certiorariinLoper ...
Supreme Court Will Hear Chevron Appeal over Ecuador Environmental Damages Case
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturnedChevron, USA Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a case that, for nearly four decades, mandated that courts defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the statutes they oversee. The Court’sLoper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondodec...
Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine, a legal principle that required courts to defer to federal agencies' interpretations of vague statutes. Topics include impact on regulatory consistency, the potential for increased judicial scrutiny of agency decisions; and the broader implications for ...
the Supreme Court has now overruledChevron,in what is likely to be recognized as one of the most important cases of the 21st century. The case isLoper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al., 603 U.S. ___ (2024) (argued withRelentless, Inc. et al. v...
Toss the Chevron deference and every time the EPA wants to close a facility leaching poisons into the drinking water, a federal court will decide the issue.
The Supreme Court’s landmark 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council obligated federal courts to defer to administrative agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous laws. For the last 40 years, courts have issued numerous de
the 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, ...
Is there any doubt that the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court, having already dispatched the “Chevron doctrine” through some clumsy judicial legerdemain, has been waiting to hook off that job the way they dropped McCutcheon after Citizens United? There is a plan, ...