Podcast: Non-binding Guidance: A Discussion of Kisor v. Wilkie
- Federal agencies’ regulatory interpretations falling short of the standards laid out in Kisor are not surviving judicial review. - Courts are closely scrutinizing regulations to determine if they are genuinely...more
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
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
In June 2019, a unanimous Supreme Court in Kisor v. Wilkie retained but limited the scope of Auer deference – the court-created doctrine that courts should defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations or other...more
As our esteemed colleague John Cruden is fond of saying, administrative law is a subset of environmental law. My vote for the most important Supreme Court environmental law decision in 35 years goes to the administrative law...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
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...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
Several federal agencies—including most notably the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. Trade Representative—administer an ever-expanding body...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
On June 26, 2019, in Kisor v. Wilkie, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to overrule its prior decisions in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945). These...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
On June 26, 2019, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kisor v. Wilkie. The Court declined to overturn Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co, but reinforced the limits on the applicability of the...more