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. That would be just as bad as it sounds. Corporate interests have been itching to get rid of the Chevron deference for as ...
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of NMFS by applying Chevron deference to the agency’s interpretation of the Act. The Court’s ruling held that although federal fishery law clearly states that the government can require fishing boats to carry monitors, it ...
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 that courts must...
Oral arguments in both appeals were held on Jan. 17, 2024. Three Supreme Court justices appeared poised to leave theChevrondoctrine intact: Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Among other rationales for keepingChevrondeference, this set of justices appeared...
While the conservative legal movement decried the growth of the so-called administrative state, the Supreme Court's decision to reconsider the Chevron rulingsparked concernsthat unwinding or even limiting the framework would threaten the ability of federal agencies to craft regulations on issues like ...
This phenomenon came to an abrupt end last Friday, when the Supreme Court overruled its own opinion in Chevron and struck a major blow to executive agency power in a 6-3 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that “…a...
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
Accordingly, the Court held that “Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, as the APA requires.”What does this ruling mean moving forward in the safety an...
Raimondo, the justices foreshadowed a ruling that could seriously rein in the latitude that courts have historically afforded to federal agencies to interpret the statutory directives given to them by legislation. Justice Neil Gorsuch, a longtime critic of the doctrine known as "Chevron deference,"...
Those cheering the Supreme Court rejection of the Chevron deference, however, included the nation’s chief grouping of for-profit colleges and universities, which have chafed under various “gainful employment” rules tying their federal student loan eligibility to the workplace success of their gradua...