This means that previous agency regulations, grants of licenses, and other agency actions cannot be undone just because Chevron has been overturned. But the court did not say that thestatutory interpretationsupon which those past actions were grounded must receive any precedential respect. Despite ...
In a major ruling this summer, a 6-3 majorityoverturned a 1984 precedentthat directed courts to defer to federal agencies interpreting vague laws. In siding with the EPA in the San Francisco case last year, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals relied in part on...