On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce to overturn a decades-old decision known as the “Chevron deference.”
According to background information from Cornell Law School, under the Chevron doctrine — nicknamed after the 1984 case Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. — courts could defer to an agency’s interpretation or answer regarding administrative legal issues “holding that such judicial deference is appropriate where the agency’s answer was not unreasonable,