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Supreme Court Issues First Major NEPA Ruling in Two Decades

On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an 8-0 opinion that clarifies the scope of environmental effects analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and requires substantial judicial deference to...more

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SCOTUS Reins in NEPA Scope in Seven County

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In a landmark ruling issued May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the D.C. Circuit in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, sharply limiting the scope of environmental review...more

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Supreme Court Issues “Course-Correcting” NEPA Decision

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The Supreme Court of the United States’ opinion, issued May 29, 2025, in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, reaffirms the Court’s earlier, seminal decisions expounding judicial review under the...more

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Infrastructure Projects Win a Victory in the U.S. Supreme Court

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 29 that lower courts had overstepped their bounds when reviewing federal agency actions pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The decision in Seven County...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

US Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Review Under NEPA

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The decision emphasizes the importance of judicial deference to agencies on NEPA and narrows the scope of environmental analyses....more

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Supreme Court Holds That Agencies Have “Substantial” Discretion to Omit Upstream and Downstream Projects from Environmental...

On May 29, 2025, a unanimous Supreme Court (voting 8-0, with Justice Gorsuch recused) held that federal agencies need not consider the environmental effects of “upstream” and “downstream” projects that are separate in time or...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Supreme Court Curbs the Scope of NEPA Reviews in Landmark Decision: Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County,...

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In the first major National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) case to reach the Supreme Court in almost two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on May 29, 2025, in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v....more

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“A Course Correction”: Supreme Court Reinforces Agency Deference and Narrows the Scope of Environmental Effects that Agencies Must...

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On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court held that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — which requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental impacts of projects that they carry out, fund, or approve — does not...more

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Supreme Court Sides with Trump Regarding Removal of NLRB and MSPB Members, and Suggests that the Federal Reserve is Different

The United States Supreme Court has granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay United States District Court Judge Beryl Howell’s order reinstating Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Cathy...more

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Supreme Court Hits the Reset Button on the National Environmental Policy Act

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On May 29, 2025, the US Supreme Court pressed the reset button on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), issuing an 8-0 decision intended to convert what NEPA has become, a “judicial oak,” back into the originally...more

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4 Key Takeaways | The Top 10 Sales and Tax and Income Tax Cases

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Kilpatrick’s David Hughes recently participated in a panel titled - “The Top 10 Sales Tax and Income Tax Cases” - at the Council on State Taxation (COST) Annual Spring Meeting in New Orleans. David and his fellow thought...more

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President Trump Issues Executive Action Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations

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On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued a presidential memorandum (the order) directing the heads of all Federal agencies to identify unlawful or potentially unlawful regulations that clearly exceed the agency’s statutory...more

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Presidential Memorandum Calls for Scrutiny and Fast-Track Repeal of Regulations

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President Trump issued a Memorandum on April 6 directing the heads of all executive departments and agencies to identify on a fast-track basis (60 days) certain categories of “unlawful and potentially unlawful” regulations...more

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Supreme Court Upholds ATF Rule Regulating Weapon Parts Kits and Unfinished Frames or Receivers as “Firearms”

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In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to regulate weapon parts kits and unfinished frames or receivers as “firearms” under the Gun...more

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White House Issues Memorandum Directing Federal Agencies to Repeal Regulations Deemed to be Unlawful Pursuant to Recent U.S....

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On April 9, the White House issued a memorandum directing federal executive departments and agencies to repeal regulations deemed unlawful pursuant to certain U.S. Supreme Court decisions. This directive aims to address...more

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Trump Directs Agencies to Quickly Repeal Unlawful Regulations, Without Notice-and-Comment

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On April 9, 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum (Memorandum) entitled Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations. The Memorandum – part of a broader “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory...more

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Chief Justice Roberts Allows Trump to Remove Wilcox from NLRB as the Supreme Court Considers the Challenge to Her Dismissal

National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Member Gwynne Wilcox is out of a job for the third time in less than four months. Since President Donald Trump terminated Wilcox from her position on January 28, 2025, Wilcox’s...more

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NLRB Again Without a Quorum

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Approximately three weeks ago, we reported that Judge Berly A. Howell, granted fired NLRB Board Member Gwynne A.Wilcox’s motion for summary judgment and reinstated her as a Board member. This decision restored the NLRB’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Still in the Dark After Loper Bright: SCOTUS Declines to Shine a Light on NLRB Deference Post-Chevron

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

Cozen O'Connor

Bipartisan AGs At Attention on Veterans’ Education Benefits

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A bipartisan coalition of 52 AGs filed an amicus brief in Yoon v. Collins, a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, in support of two veterans and their families who challenged the denial of G.I. Bill...more

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Supreme Court Decides Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vanderstok, et al.

On March 26, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vanderstok, et al., No. 23-852, and held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) rule interpreting the Gun Control...more

Snell & Wilmer

Sixth Circuit Gives Insight on a Post-Chevron World: What the Set Aside of Net Neutrality Tells Us About Scope of Agency Power

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We have previously written about two consolidated cases (Loper Bright and Relentless), in which the Supreme Court reversed a decades-old rule known as the Chevron doctrine. Broadly, the Chevron doctrine required courts to...more

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Old Days – Memories of Equity Split Dollar in the Post-Loper Bright Era

This article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. (2024) and how it might apply to Split Dollar life insurance and possibly resurrect one of my favorite life...more

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The Supreme Court Update - March 5, 2025

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: Bufkin v. Collins, No. 23-713: This case involves the “benefit-of-the-doubt rule,” a unique standard of proof the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”)...more

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Textualism Again Comes to the Fore, Albeit with Contradictory Views on the Court - SCOTUS Today

Only a few readers of SCOTUS Today are lawyers who are professionally occupied with environmental matters. However, almost all of my readers are constantly occupied with administrative law matters, governed in the...more

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