The Supreme Court just blew up four decades of precedent today, in a decision that will make it harder for executive agencies to protect the environment, public health, worker safety and more.
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This will create utter chaos in the courts, as no one knows what the rules are now. There are more than 100 federal court decisions based on the 1984 Chevron v NRDC precedent SCOTUS just overturned. It's the most cited case in the whole field of administrative law.
On the “bright” side, they’re going to hate so much what they’re going to get from the Ninth Circuit that they’ll find a way to bring it back.
Source: me, a lawyer in the Ninth Circuit willing to work on contingency with a lot of strange specialties.
I’d love to hear more. This sounds like the type of nuts and bolts of government that is important, fascinating to me, and doesn’t get talked about enough.
I'm referencing Supreme Court clerks. The opinions are written by clerks, and then the justice picks the one they're willing to put their name on. Clerks are usually recent grads from Harvard or Yale; next year is an exception because 2 Notre Dame profs are going there for a year for some reason.
I always figured they would never really do it because at least a couple of the cons would have enough sense to realize what they’ve unleashed but nope lol.
Maybe you’ll get your name on the case that is to Chevron as Rahimi is to Bruen.
I watched a law firm's lunch and learn on Chevron last week. They were pretty stoked about the chance at overturning. "Lot's of opportunities on the litigation front!"
My company has already spent time and money figuring out how to comply with new SEC rules that we have no idea whether they will be upheld or tossed. It’s always a risk (esp with the 5cir), but this also puts a whole range of previously settled rules up for grabs.
It is very infuriating how activist the conservative majority is.
I wonder how many gifts Harlen Crow gave to Clarence Thomas to help shape this ruling?
I'm not a lawyer, but my first impression was that the Chevron overturn will lead to no end of litigation. The bad news is that in the southern circuits, the the environmental good guys will lose a lot of those actions — but in California, etc., we will prevail. In any case, this SCOTUS sucks.
SCOTUS thinks we don't need experts anymore, so maybe we should all move to a more intelligent country, while they flush America down the toilet. These judicial ignoramuses, egged on by their greedy, corrupt murderous corporate benefactors, want to decide things they know nothing about. Good luck!
I was so down today because of this ruling. It's beyond dangerous and to see oil & gas (Koch bros.) win like this, is tough. They do not care about climate change, and will continue to grow with no care about the consequences. Hopefully clean energy can beat fossil out. So, a quiet weekend. :(