Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 28, 2024 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 28, 2024
- Term
- October Term 2023
- Vote
- 6–2
- Majority author
- Justice Roberts
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2023 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus LOPER BRIGHT ENTERPRISES ET AL. v. RAIMONDO, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 22–451. Argued January 17, 2024—Decided June 28, 2024* The Court granted certiorari in these cases limited to the question whether Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U. S. 837 , should be overruled or clarified. Under the Chev- ron doctrine, courts have sometimes been required to defer to “permis- sible” agency interpretations of the statutes those agencies adminis- ter—even when a reviewing court reads the statute differently. Id., at 843 . In each case below, the reviewing courts applied Chevron’s frame- work to resolve in favor of the Government challenges by petitioners to a rule promulgated by the National Marine Fisheries Service pur- suant to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, 16 U. S. C. §1801 et seq., which incorporates the…
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