SCOTUS Overruled The Chevron Doctrine, Now What?

The U.S. Supreme Court upended four decades of precedent when it recently issued its decision in two consolidated cases, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce. Now that the Court has abandoned the Chevron doctrine, federal courts may no longer defer to administrative agencies' interpretations of ambiguous or broad statutes. The decision is not only expected to impact how regulatory challenges are decided by the courts but also how federal agencies draft future rulemaking.

Significance of the Chevron Decision

The Chevron doctrine is a bedrock of administrative law. Over the past 40 years, it has been cited in more than 18,000 court decisions and more than 3,000 administrative decisions, including countless regulatory interpretations by agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and Federal Communications Commission.