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Supreme Court of the United States Corporate Counsel Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo

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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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SCOTUS Rejects FCC Edicts: Courts are (Finally) Free to Interpret the TCPA

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In a highly anticipated decision with broad implications for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) litigants, on June 20, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v....more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Supreme Court Declines to Revisit NLRB Deference Post-Loper Bright

On March 24, 2025, the Supreme Court declined to review a Ninth Circuit decision that provided an opportunity to clarify how its landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) affects the...more

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Federal Cybersecurity Policy in 2025: What to Watch in Changing Times

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Last year we made some predictions about 2024’s cyber landscape and major issues. Several proved prescient, with incident reporting, CISO scrutiny, SEC aggression, and new regulation of various sectors taking shape as the...more

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TCPA Landscape Set to Shift With Supreme Court's Grant of Certiorari to Mclaughlin Junk Fax Case

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Just a few months after the United States Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn the long-standing and widely applied legal precedent known as “Chevron deference,” it has agreed to hear a case that could entirely shift the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Trump 2.0: A First Look at the Department of Government Efficiency

Companies would be wise to take into consideration the potential outsized impact of DOGE as they develop public policy plans for the new administration. DOGE is intended to serve as an advisory or consulting organization...more

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What Employers Should Know About Tobacco Surcharge Litigation

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Tobacco surcharges have become the focus of class action litigation in recent months. Although corporate wellness programs are commonplace, employers that impose a tobacco surcharge (or other premium discount) in connection...more

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Reminder — Minimum Salary Requirements for Exempt Employees Increase on January 1, 2025

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As we wrote about earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule on April 23, 2024, increasing the standard salary level for the “white collar” exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FAQs About the Set-Aside of the FTC’s Ban on Noncompetes

In Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) final noncompete rule was held to be “unlawful and set aside” by Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas....more

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A New Age of Agency Rulemaking and Enforcement

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As we prepare for the next Supreme Court term, we’d like to look back at some of the most significant opinions from the last session and their potential impact on corporate regulation. Of the dozens of opinions issued by the...more

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U.S. Tax Court Invokes Loper Bright for the First Time

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The U.S. Tax Court allows a dividend-received deduction ("DRD") for a Section 78 gross-up while also disallowing foreign tax credits in its first application of Loper Bright....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Some Evidence that Deference to Agency Technical Decisions May Survive Loper-Bright

Late last month, I noted that the overturning of Chevron did not mean the end of judicial deference to agency expertise. Earlier this week, a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals provided some confirmation that...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

The Net-Net: How the Supreme Court’s Administrative Law Rulings Could Transform the Tech Industry ‎

This summer, the Supreme Court ended its term shortly after issuing game-changing rulings that modify the authority of federal agencies. Given the result of restraining agencies such as the FTC and FCC from interpreting and...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

After Chevron: The New Battleground for Policing Federal Agencies in the Loper Bright Era

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Chevron deference has ended, and with it the significant judicial deference to federal agency interpretations of silences or ambiguities in Congressional statutes....more

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Relying on Loper, Fifth Circuit Sends Chevron-based decision Back to District Court, calling ESG Rule into Question

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On July 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Fifth Circuit”) vacated a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (“District Court”) that upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Prequel to Loper Bright Shows What Decisions May Look Like After Chevron’s Demise

In Garland v. Cargill, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a rule that classifies bump stocks as “machineguns” under the...more

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Labor Board Rules in Jeopardy in the Post-Chevron Era: What Employers Need to Know

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The Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling that gives employers a powerful tool to fight back against regulatory overreach will have a broad impact on just about every area of workplace law. We’re looking at the specific...more

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OSHA in the Wake of Loper Bright: The Upheaval to OSHA Citation Defenses and the Regulatory

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The Supreme Court’s highly-anticipated decision in Loper Bright Enters v. Raimondo overturned decades-old precedent requiring courts under Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. to defer to federal agency...more

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Overruling Chevron Changes Everything. Or Not.

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As I previously noted on this blog, the end of the Supreme Court’s term brought with it a landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overruled Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. The holding of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Chevron Overruled, but PTAB Likely to Emerge Unscathed

Administrative agencies long enjoyed deference from the courts under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984). Chevron required courts to give leeway to agencies interpreting...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Not So Fast:  D.C. Circuit Resists Invitation to Reject NLRB Deference

On July 5, 2024, in Hospital de la Concepcion v. NLRB, the D.C. Circuit was the first federal appeals court to weigh in on deference afforded to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) in the wake of the landmark U.S....more

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Yet Another SCOTUS Decision Will Allow Employers to Challenge Federal Regulations More Easily: 5 Steps to Plan for the New Future

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All eyes were on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a decades-old legal doctrine and redefine the balance of power between federal agencies and courts, but the Court also snuck in another ruling that will allow...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Chevron Overruled and SEC Enforcement Cabined: Any Impact at the ITC?

For nearly 40 years, when a court found that a statute was ambiguous, it deferred to the reasonable interpretation of the federal agency administering the statute. This principle—known as Chevron deference, after the 1984...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Loper Bright and Relentless 101: What Regulated Businesses Need to Know at the Dawn of the Post-Chevron Era

In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court took an important step toward conscribing the power of federal agencies, abandoning the “Chevron doctrine” and its requirement that federal courts defer to agency interpretations of...more

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Supreme Court’s 2024 Term Could Transform Labor and Employment Law

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At the end of its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down four decisions limiting the power of federal agencies. While none of those decisions involved a labor and employment agency, all of them could transform labor...more

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Nine Questions, Nine Answers: The Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling ‘Chevron Deference’

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On the second-to-last day of its term, the US Supreme Court issued its decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dep’t of Commerce. These decisions overruled Chevron USA. v. National Resource...more

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