The second SCOTUS opinion today: Loper v. Raimondo (the Chevron Doctrine).
Chevron is overruled.
Held: The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous. Chevron is overruled.
The question in this case was whether to overrule the court's 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which held that courts should defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute.
This Loper decision is decided with Relentless, Inc., et al. v. Department of Commerce, et al.
The vote is 6-3 (although 6-2 in Loper-Bright because Jackson is recused). Kagan dissents, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson as it applies to Relentless, from which she is not recused.
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