Sahil Agrawal

Mar 20, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Sahil Agrawal |Joseph Ross |Yale Collaboration |Reshma Ramachandran

On January 17, 2024, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in 2 combined cases, Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo and Relentless, Inc v Department of Commerce, that will determine the fate of Chevron deference, a bedrock principle of administrative law that obligates courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes.1 Although the US Supreme Court has not invoked Chevron in nearly a decade, lower courts regularly rely on Chevron deference.