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The US Supreme Court's recent decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post will likely result in an avalanche of new litigation challenging agency interpretations of federal law. Loper Bright overturned the 40-year old doctrine known as Chevron deference which gave administrative agencies the power to interpret ambiguous federal statutes. Corner Post clarified that the six-year general statute of limitations for administrative challenges doesn't start until a rule is first applied to a party. The decisions in both cases are expected to cause instability in administrative law for years, leading to litigation against federal agencies challenging their rules and regulations and a busier docket for both the Supreme Court and lower courts. Read our recent client alert, authored by Steptoe partners Shannen Coffin, John Byron, and Shaun Boedicker, “Loper Bright and Corner Post Open Wide the Doors for Federal Court Challenges to Agency Interpretations of Federal Law.”

The US Supreme Court's recent decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post will likely result in an avalanche of new litigation challenging agency interpretations of federal law. Loper Bright overturned the 40-year old doctrine known as Chevron deference which gave administrative agencies the power to interpret ambiguous federal statutes. Corner Post clarified that the six-year general statute of limitations for administrative challenges doesn't start until a rule is first applied to a party. The decisions in both cases are expected to cause instability in administrative law for years, leading to litigation against federal agencies challenging their rules and regulations and a busier docket for both the Supreme Court and lower courts. Read our recent client alert, authored by Steptoe partners Shannen Coffin, John Byron, and Shaun Boedicker, “Loper Bright and Corner Post Open Wide the Doors for Federal Court Challenges to Agency Interpretations of Federal Law.”

The US Supreme Court's recent decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post will likely result in an avalanche of new litigation challenging agency interpretations of federal law. Loper Bright overturned the 40-year old doctrine known as Chevron deference which gave administrative agencies the power to interpret ambiguous federal statutes. Corner Post clarified that the six-year general statute of limitations for administrative challenges doesn't start until a rule is first applied to a party. The decisions in both cases are expected to cause instability in administrative law for years, leading to litigation against federal agencies challenging their rules and regulations and a busier docket for both the Supreme Court and lower courts. Read our recent client alert, authored by Steptoe partners Shannen Coffin, John Byron, and Shaun Boedicker, “Loper Bright and Corner Post Open Wide the Doors for Federal Court Challenges to Agency Interpretations of Federal Law.”

The US Supreme Court's recent decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post will likely result in an avalanche of new litigation challenging agency interpretations of federal law. Loper Bright overturned the 40-year old doctrine known as Chevron deference which gave administrative agencies the power to interpret ambiguous federal statutes. Corner Post clarified that the six-year general statute of limitations for administrative challenges doesn't start until a rule is first applied to a party. The decisions in both cases are expected to cause instability in administrative law for years, leading to litigation against federal agencies challenging their rules and regulations and a busier docket for both the Supreme Court and lower courts. Read our recent client alert, authored by Steptoe partners Shannen Coffin, John Byron, and Shaun Boedicker, “Loper Bright and Corner Post Open Wide the Doors for Federal Court Challenges to Agency Interpretations of Federal Law.”

The US Supreme Court's recent decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post will likely result in an avalanche of new litigation challenging agency interpretations of federal law. Loper Bright overturned the 40-year old doctrine known as Chevron deference which gave administrative agencies the power to interpret ambiguous federal statutes. Corner Post clarified that the six-year general statute of limitations for administrative challenges doesn't start until a rule is first applied to a party. The decisions in both cases are expected to cause instability in administrative law for years, leading to litigation against federal agencies challenging their rules and regulations and a busier docket for both the Supreme Court and lower courts. Read our recent client alert, authored by Steptoe partners Shannen Coffin, John Byron, and Shaun Boedicker, “Loper Bright and Corner Post Open Wide the Doors for Federal Court Challenges to Agency Interpretations of Federal Law.”

The US Supreme Court's recent decisions in Loper Bright and Corner Post will likely result in an avalanche of new litigation challenging agency interpretations of federal law. Loper Bright overturned the 40-year old doctrine known as Chevron deference which gave administrative agencies the power to interpret ambiguous federal statutes. Corner Post clarified that the six-year general statute of limitations for administrative challenges doesn't start until a rule is first applied to a party. The decisions in both cases are expected to cause instability in administrative law for years, leading to litigation against federal agencies challenging their rules and regulations and a busier docket for both the Supreme Court and lower courts. Read our recent client alert, authored by Steptoe partners Shannen Coffin, John Byron, and Shaun Boedicker, “Loper Bright and Corner Post Open Wide the Doors for Federal Court Challenges to Agency Interpretations of Federal Law.”

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For those in the legal and business world, be prepared that SCOTUS is hearing a case on 1/17 that could result in massive disruptions and uncertainty in the legal and business arenas. https://lnkd.in/eydt2GQw

https://lnkd.in/ecnE4Dwd I’ve practiced administrative law relating to federal, state and municipal agencies for nearly 30 years and this is one of the more significant legal decisions in that time. Today’s (6/28/24) US Supreme Court decision in “Loper Bright Enterprises et. al. V Raimondo” overturns the “Chevron doctrine” and holds that the Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority and adds “courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous”. Time will tell how courts exercise their newly clarified authority, presumably with respect to future agency rule making, but rote deference to agencies can no longer be expected where a law is ambiguous.