OverturningChevron 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...
Supreme Court overturns Chevron precedent, limiting federal regulatory powerThe Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday to overturn a 40-year-old decision that had given federal agencies broad regulatory power, curtailing the agencies' ability to enforce regulations. Former federal prosecutor Scott Frederickse...
The Supreme Court released three major decisions on Friday. The court ruled to overturn the decades-old Chevron doctrine, limiting how federal agencies can enforce regulations, raised the bar for obstruction charges against Jan. 6 rioters, and upheld a law that lets cities ban homeless people fro...
The conservative majority on the US Supreme Court appears poised to overturn a longstanding legal doctrine in a decision that could have major implications for federal energy and climate regulations. During oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the justices...
One final note: Last year, I expressed hop that the Supreme Court would overturn the disgusting policy of civil asset forfeiture. That may still happen, though one year later than I hoped. Now let’s contemplate potential bad outcomes. Here are the three things I fear will happen this year...
prior decisions addressing agency actions underChevronmay be called into question by the Supreme Court's decision, particularly if the Court decides to overturnChevron. Similarly, the ruling could cast doubt on underlying agency positions that have been relied upon by regulated entities t...
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. ...
So there I was, reading through the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings, when the phone rang. On the other end was my friend the general counsel, who apparently had been doing the same. “Oh man,” he said, launching into a diatribe. “This ruling to overturn the Chevron doctrine...
May 8, 2024en banc, Eolas, paid, patent eligibility, patent law, Section 101, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch Eolas is seeking a writ of certiorari from the Supreme Court -- hoping that the court will overturn the Federal Circuit's decision invalidating its distributed computing (WWW) claims as...
In a terse order, the court said it would hear a case that seeks to limit or overturn a unanimous 1984 precedent, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. According to the decision, if part of the law Congress wrote empowering a regulatory agency is ambiguous but the agency’s interpret...