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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 -
Stevens & Lee

Presidential Memorandum Calls for Scrutiny and Fast-Track Repeal of Regulations

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President Trump issued a Memorandum on April 6 directing the heads of all executive departments and agencies to identify on a fast-track basis (60 days) certain categories of “unlawful and potentially unlawful” regulations...more

Carlton Fields

DNC Files First Challenge to Executive Order Seizing Power From Independent Regulatory Agencies, but With a Twist That May Limit...

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We recently covered executive order 14215, titled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” the second Trump administration’s most straightforward attack on the discretion of what it called “so-called independent regulatory...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Top 10 Takeaways for Businesses from the Supreme Court’s Three Big Administrative Law Decisions in 2024

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Now that the dust has settled following the Supreme Court’s overhaul of administrative law through three late-term decisions, Akin litigators and policy advisors offer the most significant takeaways for businesses and...more

King & Spalding

Lawmakers Armed with Loper are Preparing to Take Aim at HHS Policies

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On July 10, 2024, HHS found itself a recipient of one of the dozens of letters sent to various federal agencies by Republican lawmakers. These letters task the federal agencies to themselves identify areas where the agencies...more

Fisher Phillips

Is the Post-Chevron Era All It’s Cracked Up to Be? 4 Reasons Businesses Might Not Celebrate the New Normal

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Many business leaders celebrated the Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling that offers a powerful new tool to fight back against regulatory agencies – but are hidden dangers lurking beneath this apparent victory? While the...more

Foster Garvey PC

The U.S. Supreme Court Overrules the Landmark Decision in Chevron – Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

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On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the landmark case of Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. et. al. Interestingly, the Loper decision was rendered...more

Holland & Knight LLP

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

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Ready for the Flood of Litigation Against Federal Agencies?

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two related cases that may have a significant impact on litigation against federal agencies – Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce....more

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SCOTUS Will Have a Full Bench to Review Chevron Deference

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Chevron deference is squarely in the U.S. Supreme Court’s crosshairs. The Court has had on its October docket an appeal in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which challenges the long-standing doctrine. First established...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SCOTUS agrees to hear second case challenging Chevron deference

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Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a second case, Relentless, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Commerce, in which the question presented is whether the Court should overrule its 1984 decision in Chevron, U.S.A.,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Supreme Court Signaling That Agencies May Have a Shorter Leash in the Future

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The automotive industry, as much as any industry operating in the United States, has a substantial federal regulatory burden, with an alphabet soup of agencies charged with regulating under the authority of an alphabet soup...more

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