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U.S. Supreme Court

May 2, 2023

Supreme Court takes challenge to administrative agencies

Justices appointed by Republican presidents have grown increasingly disenchanted with Chevron in recent years and often have avoided the precedent altogether.

A fishing industry challenge to government regulations may finally doom a long-influential U.S. Supreme Court precedent that grants judicial deference to administrative agencies if a law’s language is ambiguous.

But the court’s decision Monday to hear a case that poses a direct challenge to the 1984 ruling, Chevron USA Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 867 (1984), may not result in its reversal.

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