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The legal battle over the scope of orphan drug exclusivity continues, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has recently lost a second case concerning the exclusivity provisions of the Orphan Drug Act (“ODA”)....more
In McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226, 2025 WL 1716136 (U.S. June 20, 2025), the Supreme Court determined that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to...more
The Administrative Order Review Act (better known as the "Hobbs Act") grants "exclusive jurisdiction" to the federal courts of appeals to "determine the validity" of most FCC orders and rules and certain other agency orders....more
A "Course Correction" of NEPA Review - In an 8-0 judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had vacated the U.S. Surface Transportation Board’s (the “Board”)...more
Litigants in Puerto Rico now have an easier path to challenge administrative agencies’ determinations after the Puerto Rico Supreme Court (PRSC) ruled in Vázquez v. Consejo de Titulares, 2025 TSPR 56, that courts shall not...more
On May 16, in Texas v. EPA, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected EPA’s nonattainment designation for two counties in Texas. What I find most interesting about the case is the reaction to it. Inside EPA (subscription...more
On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the statutory authority to regulate laboratory developed tests...more
Last year, the United States Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision put an end to “Chevron deference,” a judicial practice of deferring to federal agency interpretations of ambiguous statutory language. While the legal...more
In Liberty Petro. Corp. v. N.D. Indus. Comm’n, the Supreme Court of North Dakota addressed whether nonconsent risk penalties must be assessed on a well-by-well basis or can be recovered from overall unit production. The court...more
On January 21, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corporation, et al., a case and decision that may have an outsized impact on the nature of judicial review of...more
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that will likely determine whether a federal district court or the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has the final say on how to interpret the Telephone...more
On January 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued a decision ("Decision") invalidating the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet Order ("Safeguarding...more
The decades-long fight over net neutrality appears to be over. In one of the first appellate decisions since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo...more
As 2024 draws to a close, several crucial developments — some aimed at modernizing long-standing legal practices, others addressing emerging challenges — have reached patent law. Originally published in Law360 - December...more
In a long-awaited decision in Restaurant Law Center v. US Department of Labor, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a US Department of Labor (DOL) regulation governing the way tipped employees are paid,...more
In a recent win for health care providers, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s decision to vacate key portions of regulations issued by the U.S. Departments of Treasury,...more
The Ninth Circuit has repeated itself in reversing a unanimous Tax Court holding on the validity of the Treasury’s regulations under Section 482. Our International Tax Group examines the reconstituted panel’s significant...more
The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States have again limited the reach of Chevron deference. On May 28, 2019, the Court in Smith v. Berryhill carved another exception into what has lately proven to be its...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Tax Court in Altera Corp. in the latest chapter of the dispute over the validity of cost-sharing regulations. The decision, issued on July 24, revives certain regulatory...more
On July 24, 2018, in Altera Corp. v. Commissioner, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the validity of a Treasury Department regulation that requires a U.S. taxpayer to allocate a portion...more
On July 24, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a 2-to-1 opinion, ruled in Altera Corp. v. Commissioner that Treasury Regulations involving transfer pricing promulgated in 2003 (the Regulations) complied...more
In Otsuka Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Price, No. 16-5229 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 29, 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the district court decision upholding FDA’s “same moiety” test for defining...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently resurrected EPA’s embattled Water Transfers Rule (“WTR”) in a case particularly important to municipal water suppliers and others engaged in interbasin...more
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Many important environmental and administrative law decisions were reported by the federal and state courts over the past six months. The courts are dealing with very...more
This Advisory briefly reports on some of the significant U.S. Supreme Court actions from January through June 2016 related to environmental and administrative law. ...more