U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Administrative/Regulatory
Jul. 2, 2018
Debugging Chevron deference
In one of his final opinions before announcing his retirement, Justice Anthony Kennedy called on the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its doctrine of deferring to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes.





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David A. DeGroot is an attorney in San Francisco
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The age of federal court deference to agency decisions may be coming to an end. In the recent case Pereira v. Sessions, 2018 DJDAR 5953 (June 21, 2018), Justice Anthony Kennedy called on the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its doctrine of deferring to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, first announced in the 1984 decision in Chevron v. NRDC.
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