Agencies Face Uncertainty After Four Major Supreme Court Decisions

These decisions both individually, and in combination, constrain the power of federal agencies and give the federal judiciary greater authority ...

The Clean Air Act (CAA) directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set standards for common air pollutants.

Together these four cases have realigned the dynamic between the regulated community and federal agencies. Here are the key takeaways: SEC v.

Collectively, these decisions shift power away from the agencies (and in some cases Congress), transferring that power to the Courts. Decades- ...

In Chevron, the Supreme Court instructed courts to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes they are charged by Congress to ...

The court dealt yet another blow to federal agencies on Monday, deciding in Corner Post v. Federal Reserve that it must strike down the existing ...

The Supreme Court has upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, ...

Since 1984, the “Chevron doctrine” has been the bedrock of administrative law. Under Chevron, federal judges generally deferred to career ...

... cases. Loper Bright will have major implications for citizens fighting administrative agencies in courts. These three cases remind us how ...

Department of Commerce (collectively, “Loper Bright”) held by a 6-3 majority that “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding ...

But for a long time, the importance of what came to be known as “Chevron deference” was limited to the world of regulatory litigators, agencies, ...

Raimondo. The Supreme Court then on July 1, 2024, held that the statute of limitations to challenge an agency action under the Administrative ...

The Supreme Court not only altered agency enforcement by requiring many such cases to now be brought in federal court, but it also called ...

Held: The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its ...

v. NRDC, Inc., a long-standing decision requiring federal courts to defer to federal agencies' reasonable interpretations of statutory ...

The Supreme Court made it easier to challenge long-standing federal rules, the latest in a series of decisions about government actions.

EPA, the Court put on hold an EPA air pollution regulation designed to prevent upwind states from harming downwind states and their residents.

Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, two cases that challenge the Chevron framework. Although the federal regulation being ...

Agencies such as the FDA are likely to be far more cautious in drafting regulations, Congress is expected to take more time fleshing out ...

For nearly 40 years and in more than 18000 judicial opinions, courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable ...