Supreme Court's ruling on the case Chevron U.S.A. Inc. versus Echazabal, wherein the Court ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act does not require employers to place disabled workers in jobs that would pose a direct threat to their own health or safety. Background on the suit ...
v. Rahimi barbecues the English language trying to square that case with the “originalism” that was allegedly the basis of their opinions in Bruen and Heller. On Monday, the Court made a ruling that, looked at from a certain angle, might indicate that there are limits to its ...
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
Washington —The Supreme Court on Fridayoverturned a landmark 40-year-old decisionthat gave federal agencies broad regulatory power, upending their authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly.The court split along ideological lines in the dispute, with Chief Justice John Roberts ...
This Holland & Knight alert examines the various ways in which the Court could rule and the impacts the ruling could have on agency-regulated entities. For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used theChevrondoctrine to defer to an agenc...
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. ...
The Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a 40-year legal principle that has shaped the role of government agencies. The outcome could affect medication approval, pollution regulation, and more
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...
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron, 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’s L
Another ruling in June, overturning adecades-old decisionknown colloquially as Chevron, is also expected to make environmental regulations more difficult to set and keep, along with other federal agency actions. But the justices also have recently kept in effect environmental regulations to limit plane...