No. 22-451October Term 2023Decided Jun 28, 2024
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Commercial fishing companies challenged a federal rule requiring them to help fund onboard monitoring, using the case to attack Chevron deference.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released Jun 28, 2024
- What it's about
Commercial fishing companies challenged a federal rule requiring them to help fund onboard monitoring, using the case to attack Chevron deference. The Court overruled Chevron, held courts must exercise independent judgment on legal questions under the APA, and vacated the D.C. Circuit's judgment.
Question presented
1. Does the Magnuson-Stevens Act authorize the National Marine Fisheries Service to promulgate a rule that would require industry to pay for at-sea monitoring programs? 2. Should the Court overrule Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council or at least clarify whether statutory silence on controversial powers creates an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency?
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit / Decision released Jun 28, 2024
- Area
Administrative Law, Business and Regulation
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- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Apr 30, 2026
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