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As reported by Cause of Action Institute, which represents the fishermen in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the head of NOAA Fisheries sent a letter to the New England Fishery Management Council last week directing it to “revise and potentially withdraw” industry-funded monitoring requirements for the Atlantic herring fishery.  In the absence of council action,…

As Professor Jonathan Adler covered in Reason, the Solicitor General has declined to defend the D.C. Circuit’s split-panel decision in American Gas Association v. Department of Energy in the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Last week, my colleague, Michael Pepson, noted that Loper Bright might come up during oral argument in Monsanto Company v. Durnell, a case that raises the question of whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”) preempts state labeling requirements.  Although neither party cited Loper Bright during briefing on the petition for writ of certiorari, the case did come up in the respondent’s answering brief on the merits.  Specifically, Mr. Durnell argued that, under Loper Bright, the onus was on Monsanto to…

The past two months have seen Loper Bright play an important role in the adjudication of several appeals across multiple circuit courts.  Here are the instances where Loper Bright, and the end of Chevron deference, was particularly notable.

The Yale Journal on Regulation’s blog, Notice & Comment, has published the second half of a two-part series exploring the impact of Loper Bright on the two major political parties and their members in Congress.    The first half, published last month, explored how Chevron deference possibly served a uniting function for the GOP, and that its elimination by the Supreme Court now leaves an “open question whether business-minded conservatives and antistatist conservatives can…