Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the combined cases of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. U.S. Department of Commerce.[1]
While the public's focus may be on more headline-grabbing Supreme Court cases this term, none of them has the potential to have as much of an impact on the functioning of the federal government and the business community as Loper Bright and Relentless.
In these cases, the high court has been asked to decide whether to overrule or amend the Chevron doctrine, a long-standing cornerstone of administrative law that arose from the court's 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.[2] Since the Chevron decision nearly 40 years ago, courts have deferred to a federal agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute when reviewing agency actions.
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