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U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Administrative/Regulatory

Jul. 11, 2019

High court's Kisor ruling: only a scene in a larger drama

The death of federal court deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous regulations, commonly known as Auer doctrine, has been widely predicted since the confirmation of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

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The death of federal court deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous regulations, commonly known as Auer doctrine, has been widely predicted since the confirmation of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. In a surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to write the expected obituary of Auer in the case of Kisor v. W...