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In July, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Evers v. Marklein that reshapes how administrative rules are created and implemented in the state. The Court struck down the Joint Committee for Review of...more
The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down its decision in Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, a case involving the question whether Congress’s delegation of authority to the FCC to implement provisions...more
Join us for a webinar on the newly enacted Administrative False Claims Act (AFCA), a significant update to the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986. This session will explore administrative agencies’ expanded powers...more
Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things administrative law, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more
Among the highly consequential decisions issued by the Supreme Court of the United States at the end of the most recent term is a long-anticipated one that stands to bring about a seismic shift in administrative law....more
In a landmark ruling on 28 June 2024, the US Supreme Court expressly overruled the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine with its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, eliminating the requirement that courts defer to...more
The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, __ U.S. __ (2024), overturning the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, drastically reshapes administrative law....more
Life sciences companies are adding risk factor language in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Chevron Doctrine. As you may recall, the U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned the Chevron Doctrine....more
Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that it, just five...more
In its last opinion of this term, the US Supreme Court in Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System significantly extended the timeframe in which courts can review certain current and future regulations....more
On October 3, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, the latest in a long line of cases targeting the constitutionality...more
On October 3, 2023, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Community Financial Services Association of America Ltd., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al., in which the Court was asked to...more
On July 5, 2023, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction that raises a challenge to FINRA’s authority to use FINRA-appointed hearing officers to conduct enforcement proceedings. The injunction enables Alpine...more
This past Thursday, August 31, another preliminary injunction motion was filed in the Texas lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s small business lending rule (Rule). The latest motion was filed by XL Funding, LLC d/b/a Axle...more
Under constitutional law, the nondelegation doctrine prevents Congress from adopting laws that give administrative agencies overly broad discretion to adopt regulations that usurp its legislative authority. Recently, the...more
On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States opened the door for new challenges to the federal administrative state. In a unanimous decision in a pair of consolidated cases, Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a direct challenge to Chevron deference. A decision in the case could either overrule Chevron altogether, or alternatively narrow the...more
In Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran, the respondents in administrative agency enforcement actions brought suit in federal district court, challenging the constitutionality of each respective agency’s attempt to...more
Consistent with federal courts’ recent pattern of limiting the reach of administrative agencies, the Supreme Court held on April 14, 2023, that a challenge to the constitutional authority of an administrative law judge...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 14, 2023, issued a unanimous opinion holding that federal district courts can consider constitutional challenges to administrative proceedings before such agencies issue final rulings. In Axon...more
The U.S. Senate on Aug. 7, 2022, passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). This comprehensive legislation is the result of many months of negotiations among Democrats to advance some of President Joe Biden's highest...more
A number of health care related cases have come before the United States Supreme Court this session, including two cases on topics we have previously reported on: Medicare’s site-neutral payment policy for off-campus...more
In California Communities Against Toxics v. EPA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued an opinion that may have a lasting impact on administrative agencies’ use of guidance memos and policy statements. For...more
Thursday afternoon, by a vote of 50-49, the Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger as CFPB Director. Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB Director has a five-year term. ...more