On April 9, 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum (Memorandum) entitled Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations. The Memorandum – part of a broader “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory...more
4/14/2025
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Chevron Deference ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Executive Orders ,
Presidential Proclamations ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rulemaking Process ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Trump Administration
On February 19, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Deregulatory Initiative.” As Wiley has...more
On January 24, 2025, the Trump Administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause briefing in several cases on the current merits docket. In making the request, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris explained that the new...more
1/30/2025
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Clean Air Act ,
Clean Energy ,
Department of Education ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Renewable Energy ,
Renewable Fuel ,
SCOTUS ,
Trump Administration
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court held in SEC v. Jarkesy that a defendant in a securities fraud suit has the right to be tried by a jury in an Article III court, rather than before an agency’s own tribunal. The Court’s...more
7/11/2024
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Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Administrative Proceedings ,
Article III ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Jury Trial ,
OSHA ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Fraud ,
Seventh Amendment
Last week, in Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the six-year statute of limitations that applies to facial challenges of agency action under the...more
On Friday, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal agencies are no longer entitled to deference when they interpret ambiguous statutes. Loper Bright thus overrules an earlier Supreme...more
7/2/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
FTC Act ,
Government Agencies ,
Hobbs Act ,
Judicial Authority ,
Jury Trial ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Media ,
Regulatory Authority ,
SCOTUS ,
SEC v Jarkesy ,
Seventh Amendment ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Telecommunications
This month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a pair of cases that have the potential to profoundly alter the landscape of technology regulation in the United States: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and...more
2/5/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Broadband ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Kisor v Wilkie ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Oral Argument ,
Popular ,
Relentless Inc v US Department of Commerce ,
SCOTUS ,
Separation of Powers ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
TCPA ,
Technology
The United States Supreme Court late last month vacated the stay of an injunction entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In a brief, one-paragraph order with no dissents, the Supreme Court held that...more
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the case challenging the loan repayment prohibition in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA). The Court ruled 6-3 along familiar...more
On Thursday, April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that vacated deregulatory changes to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) media...more