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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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What's Next for the Regulatory Landscape Post-Chevron?

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For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court...more

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Healthcare Impacts in a Post-Chevron World

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The Supreme Court's landmark June 28, 2024 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo abandoned the Chevron doctrine after 40 years of deferring to agency interpretations of ambiguous laws. As previewed in our June 28...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Overrules The Chevron Doctrine

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For 40 years, the federal courts have deferred to the statutory construction adopted by administrative agencies where an authorizing statute was either ambiguous or left a gap that required further interpretation. In such...more

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US Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Deference to Agencies in Loper Bright and Relentless

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The decision establishes that courts, not federal regulatory agencies, have final authority over the meaning of federal laws implicating those agencies and the limits on their authority. On June 28, 2024, the US Supreme...more

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Supreme Court Overrules Chevron in Far-Reaching Decision Limiting the Power of Administrative Agencies

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On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its eagerly anticipated rulings in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce and explicitly overruled the doctrine of “Chevron deference,”...more

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The Supreme Court Update - June 28, 2024

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued four decisions today: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451; Relentless v. Department of Commerce, No. 22-1219: These cases, decided in a single opinion, address...more

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Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Deference, Lets Courts Exercise Their Own Independent Judgment

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The U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron deference in its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on June 28, 2024. Chevron – a central doctrine of administrative law – had stood since 1984....more

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With Chevron Gone What Comes Next?

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The Supreme Court took the long-anticipated step of overruling Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837 (1984). The majority decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo means that...more

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The End of Chevron: Administrative Power Shifts to the Courts

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The United States Supreme Court has effectively vanquished the Chevron doctrine, which has governed the power of federal agencies to interpret federal statutes for the last 40 years. In recent years, the Chevron doctrine has...more

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Key Takeaways for Heavily Regulated Industries From the Supreme Court's Chevron Ruling

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Forty years ago, the Supreme Court adopted a doctrine that has allowed federal agencies to make the final call on interpreting ambiguous laws. Today, the court overruled that doctrine and held that courts, not agencies, are...more

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Supreme Court Overrules Chevron: Agency Deference in Flux

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In a monumental opinion issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overruled Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., holding (6-3) that deference to an agency's...more

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Supreme Court Overrules ‘Chevron’ Deference to Agencies

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Note from your Adventures In Law Blog editors: Well, just today the Supreme Court overruled the Chevron case in Loper Bright, which provided deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous law in the statutes they...more

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U.S. Supreme Court May Soon Discard or Modify Chevron Deference

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For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Under the doctrine, named for the 1984...more

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Supreme Court Takes on the Chevron Doctrine

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On January 17, 2024, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in tandem cases Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Dept. of Commerce, et al., which ask whether the court should overrule one of...more

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Jurisdictional or Nonjurisdictional? That Is the Question: SCOTUS Today

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The Supreme Court issued a single opinion yesterday. Wilkins v. United States concerns a property rights dispute between the federal government and two owners of land near the Bitterroot National Forest in rural Montana to...more

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[Podcast] 2022 SCOTUS Wrapup and Preview

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In this special episode, Akin Gump Supreme Court and appellate practice head Pratik Shah and senior counsel Aileen McGrath discuss the momentous 2021 Supreme Court Term and look at notable upcoming cases in the October 2022...more

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Recent Ruling on Medical Privacy Claims Illustrates the Fourth Circuit’s Application of Stare Decisis

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A recent Fourth Circuit opinion about medical privacy provides a valuable lesson on how stare decisis can guide litigants through case law that is less than clear....more

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Oral Argument in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic, Inc.

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The Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. over the issue of assignor estoppel. As a reminder, the case arose in an infringement suit over U.S. Patent Nos. 6,782,183 and...more

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Countdown to the Supreme Court’s ERISA Preemption Oral Argument in Rutledge — Two Noteworthy Case Developments

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Seyfarth Synopsis: As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments on a key case that could have major ramifications on the scope of ERISA preemption, two recent case developments show just how important the high court’s...more

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Supreme Court Decides June Medical Services L.L.C et al. v. Russo

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On June 29, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided June Medical Services L.L.C. et al. v. Russo, Interim Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, holding that abortion providers had standing to assert the...more

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Supreme Court: States Generally Immune From Copyright Infringement

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In Allen v. Cooper, the Supreme Court held that the copyright clause in the U.S. Constitution did not authorize Congress to abrogate states’ Eleventh Amendment immunity from copyright infringement. In addition, Congress’s...more

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SCOTUS Rules That Sixth Amendment Requires Unanimous Jury Verdicts For Criminal Convictions In Federal And State Courts

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On April 20, 2020, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Ramos v. Louisiana, ruling that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires unanimous jury verdicts for a conviction in a criminal case. In a split decision,...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals From The PTAB: Summaries of Key 2019 Decisions: Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019)

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James Kisor, a Korean War Veteran, asked the Supreme Court to overrule a longstanding presumption that courts defer to an executive agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own regulation, a principle known as Auer...more

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SCOTUS Agrees to Take on ERISA Preemption Once Again!

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In January, the Supreme Court agreed to accept an appeal filed by the State of Arkansas of a decision by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals finding that Section 514 of ERISA expressly preempted the state’s maximum allowable...more

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Kisor Helps Auer Find Its Way Back To Seminole Rock

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Shortly before the new year, when the holidays were in full swing, Kisor v. Wilkie celebrated its half-birthday.  That was quick.  Just six months ago – when short winter days were long summer nights, when peppermint mochas...more

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