Holtzman Vogel attorneys wrote on the Supreme Court's landmark Loper Bright decision earlier this month. The Court overruled its 1984 decision in Chevron v. NRDC that introduced the so-called "Chevron deference" principle that has required courts to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes for the last 40 years. In Loper Bright, the Supreme Court jettisoned that deference principle and instructed courts to instead exercise independent judgment when deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.
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