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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) on May 3, 2024, reversed the U.S. Tax Court (USTC) in Alon Farhy v. Commissioner, No. 23-1179 (D.C. Cir. May 3, 2024) by holding that...more
R v TOM HAYES & CARLO PALOMBO [2024] EWCA 304 On 27 March 2024, the Court of Appeal (Bean & Popplewell LJJ, Bryan J) dismissed the appeals against conviction following referrals of the appeals to the Court of Appeal by the...more
In "In the Estate of Johnson," a decedent’s daughter filed a will contest after accepting over $146,000 from the estate. No. 05-18-01193-CV, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 9646 (Tex. App.—Dallas November 4, 2019, no pet.). ...more
We recently reported on a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in favor of a creditor that seized a debtor’s property pre-petition. In In re Denby-Peterson, the Third Circuit sided with the...more
Until just last year, it was common for public sector collective bargaining agreements to require employees who elected not to belong to a union, but were still covered by the CBA, to pay “fair share” fees to the union as a...more
A divided Supreme Court changed the landscape of administrative law in a recent decision, Kisor v. Wilkie. In Kisor, a slim majority declined to overrule Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., Auer v. Robbins and related cases,...more
Courts’ deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes and regulations has been a mainstay of administrative law. The Chevron Doctrine has since 1984 provided that courts should put a “thumb-on-the-scales in favor...more
On June 26, 2019, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Kisor v. Wilkie. After hearing oral arguments in March, the Court considered whether to overrule the Auer deference standard, the long-standing doctrine...more
Federal agencies issue hundreds of significant rules each year, affecting virtually all aspects of U.S. economic activity. For decades, businesses, consumers, environmental and labor groups, and others have challenged these...more
On June 26, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the continued viability of Auer deference, an interpretive doctrine that requires courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable reading of a genuinely ambiguous regulation. In...more
On June 26, 2019, the United States Supreme Court declined to overturn the Auer doctrine, leaving in place, for now, judicial deference to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations. Kisor v. Wilkie, 2019 WL 2605554,...more
Last month, the Supreme Court in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S.Ct. 2400 (2019) upheld what is known in administrative law as Auer deference: the age-old principle that a court should defer to an agency when the agency is...more
In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that governmental agencies are still entitled to deference in interpreting their own regulations—but only where those regulations are “genuinely ambiguous.” Kisor...more
The bête-noir of conservative jurisprudence is the “administrative state,” fueled by judicial doctrines affording various degrees of deference to administrative regulations, interpretive guidelines, and pronouncements. Last...more
Paired with the recent decision in Azar v. Allina, the healthcare industry in particular can hope for a greater voice in the regulatory process in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s directives. With Allina’s requirement that...more
McDermott partners Paul W. Hughes and Michael B. Kimberly, co-chairs of the Firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation practice, represented James Kisor in the recent Supreme Court case Kisor v. Wilkie, with Paul arguing the...more
On June 26, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, and the result is a mixed bag for companies subject to federal regulation. While the Court declined to overrule Auerdeference — the doctrine...more
By the thinnest of margins, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to overrule the so-called Auer (or Seminole Rock) deference doctrine, under which courts defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own...more
This week, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, a case seeking to overturn prior precedent requiring deference to federal agencies’ interpretations of their regulations. The case involved a...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld this week a key component of administrative law that tells judges to defer to an executive agency’s interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation. Kisor v. Secretary of...more
On June 26, 2019, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), a case concerning what level of deference courts owe to federal agency interpretations of their own regulations. The issue before the...more
To the surprise of many, on June 26, a unanimous Supreme Court in Kisor v. Wilkie allowed continued, though limited, deference to an agency’s interpretation of its own ambiguous regulatory language. ...more
Not much of a showdown. Old Westerns used to end at high noon on Main Street. At one end was the White Hat, at the other end was the Black Hat. Suddenly, guns flashed, shots rang out, and we all held our breath to see who...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions this morning: Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Assn. v. Thomas, No. 18-96: The State of Tennessee has a number of laws imposing durational-residency...more
The Supreme Court’s decision today on “Auer” deference leaves life in the legal trenches untouched. See Kisor v. Wilkie, No. 18-15 (S.Ct. June 26, 2019) Under Kisor, when a regulatory agency issues a rule that is really,...more