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 case Echazabal v. Chevron Corp. which involves the violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reason for the lawsuit filed by Mario Echazabal; Ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; Advice to minimize employer's liability in a direct threat ...
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, ...
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 Supreme Court overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power.
In urging the Supreme Court to take up the dispute, they argued that the case presents the justices with the chance to "impose sensible limits on agency deference." Chevron "has been a disaster in practice," attorneys for the fishing companies wrote. "Lower courts see ambiguity everywhere an...
The Immunity Case Is Actually Not the Most Consequential One Before the Court This Week 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. By Charles P. PiercePublished: Jun 25...
InLoper Bright, the Supreme Court held thatChevrondeference is incompatible with the APA and with courts’ paramount duty to interpret the laws that Congress enacts. In reaching this conclusion, the majority relied on the language of the APA, which assigns to fe...
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