Podcast: Non-binding Guidance: A Discussion of Kisor v. Wilkie
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In June 2019, a unanimous Supreme Court in Kisor v. Wilkie retained but limited the scope of Auer deference – the court-created doctrine that courts should defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations or other...more
As our esteemed colleague John Cruden is fond of saying, administrative law is a subset of environmental law. My vote for the most important Supreme Court environmental law decision in 35 years goes to the administrative law...more
On June 26, 2019, the United States Supreme Court declined to overturn the Auer doctrine, leaving in place, for now, judicial deference to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations. Kisor v. Wilkie, 2019 WL 2605554,...more
On June 26, 2019, in Kisor v. Wilkie, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to overrule its prior decisions in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945). These...more
On June 26, 2019, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kisor v. Wilkie. The Court declined to overturn Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co, but reinforced the limits on the applicability of the...more
The Supreme Court closed out its current term this week, issuing decisions in two cases with important implications for public schools. In Kisor v. Wilkie, issued yesterday, a surprising majority of the Court (the liberal...more
On June 26, 2019, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in Kisor v. Wilkie. The question presented in Kisor was whether to overrule the Court’s prior decisions in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Bowles v. Seminole...more
On June 26, 2019, the US Supreme Court handed down a long-awaited decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, a case that challenged Auer deference, a long-standing doctrine of administrative agency law that requires courts interpreting...more
In a decision issued on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Kisor v. Wilkie, declined to overrule a line of cases instructing courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own regulation, a doctrine sometimes...more
By a 9-0 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that by and large, the courts should continue deferring to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ambiguous regulations, leaving a good deal of power in the...more
As noted in this PubCo post, SCOTUS recently heard oral argument in Kisor v. Wilkie, a case involving the interpretation of a regulation issued by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. In Kisor, a Vietnam vet, suffering from...more
At the end of last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Kisor v. Wilkie, a case in which the question before the Court is whether it should overrule a line of cases instructing courts to defer to an agency’s...more
On March 27, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), focusing on whether Auer deference should be overruled. ...more
As we discussed in a prior post and in our article for Law360, the Supreme Court is poised to decide in Kisor v. Wilkie whether to overrule the Auer deference doctrine. This doctrine, which originated in the 1945 Seminole...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed this week to reconsider a key precedent of administrative law that tells judges to defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation, taking up a challenge...more
On December, 10, 2018, the United States Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari in Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), which raises the issue of whether Auer deference should be overruled. ...more