News & Analysis as of September 13, 2025

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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 -

New NEPA

Hogan Lovells on 8/6/2025

There have been more changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and its implementing regulations in the past nine months than perhaps at any point since NEPA was signed into law by President Nixon on January 1,...more

FWS and NOAA propose to narrow reach of Endangered Species Act

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 4/18/2025

On April 17, 2025, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act...more

Rough Seas Ahead? Supreme Court to Reconsider Chevron Doctrine

McDermott Will & Schulte on 10/26/2023

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to reconsider the Chevron doctrine, which instructs courts to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that US Congress delegated to the...more

Chevron Deference Running on Fumes?

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/19/2023

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to revisit one of its most significant rulings affecting administrative rules and regulations by granting cert in the matter Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The court's decision...more

SCOTUS to hear case that could upend power of federal regulatory agencies

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/10/2023

As we have seen recently, the U.S. Supreme Court is again considering overturning decades-long precedent. Nearly 40 years after the Court decided Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, it has agreed to reconsider....more

Florida v. Georgia: U.S. Supreme Court Addresses Decades-Long Water Conflict

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/5/2021

No April Fools’ joke here. The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled in favor of the State of Georgia over a decades-long dispute with Florida over water consumption. Florida challenged Georgia’s...more

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