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In a recent post for the Yale Journal on Regulation’s “Notice & Comment” blog, law professor Daniel Deacon has previewed a draft report prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States entitled “Drafting Regulatory Preambles.”  Described as an exploration of “best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in judicial review…

Americans for Prosperity (“AFP”) has published an article by AFP Foundation Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Mulvey that re-tells the story of Loper Bright with a focus on the plaintiff-fishermen, who stood up to what they took to be an egregious instance of government overreach.  The article is part of AFP’s “One Small Step” series, which…

Updates to the federal government’s official guide to interpretations of the Constitution—maintained by the Librarian of Congress and popularly known as “Constitution Annotated”—were published earlier this week to reflect the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo on the proper understanding of the Vesting Clause in Article I.  The changes…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision striking down a Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) regulation that interpreted the phrase “prior express consent” in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) to mean “written” consent, at least when it comes to so-called “telemarketing” calls.  That decision, in a case…

Americans for Prosperity Foundation applauds the Trump EPA’s decision to repeal the agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding—a document the agency has used as a springboard to claim sweeping power under the Clean Air Act to unilaterally set national transportation and energy policy by administrative edict without Congress’s permission. The Endangerment Finding has underpinned a host of…

An interesting question after Loper Bright is how the demise of Chevron deference intersects with other deference doctrines that are still on the books, albeit perhaps on life support, such as Auer deference (which allows courts to defer to agency interpretations of their own regulations) and Stinson deference (which teaches that courts should defer to Sentencing Commission commentary on federal sentencing guidelines). 

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will consider for the first time two cert petitions at its conference presenting Loper Bright-related questions. A third, more tangentially Loper Bright-related petition will return as a relist.