Supreme Court Overturns Landmark Chevron Decision

In Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, the Supreme Court overruled its landmark decision in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984).

KEY POINTS

• Courts will now interpret federal statutes without being required to accept an agency's "permissible" interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
• The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise independent judgment when deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.
• Courts may still give persuasive weight or "careful attention" to an agency's views about ambiguous statutes, but the court must decide the best reading of the statute and resolve the ambiguity.