Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
United States Supreme Court
144 S.Ct. 2244, Case No. 22-451 (2024)
- Written by Abby Roughton, JD
Facts
In two separate cases, Loper Bright Enterprises and other operators in the commercial herring-fishing industry (collectively, Loper Bright) (plaintiffs) sued the United States Department of Commerce and federal officials, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (collectively, the government) (defendants) to challenge a federal regulation requiring industry-funded monitoring of herring-fishing vessels in the Atlantic. Loper Bright argued that the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) did not authorize the administering agency to require industry members to pay for the monitoring. In both cases, federal district courts granted summary judgment for the government, and federal appellate courts affirmed. The courts deferred to the agency’s interpretation of the MSA under the framework established by the Supreme Court in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which required courts to defer to a reasonable agency interpretation of the statute administered by the agency if Congress had not directly addressed the relevant issue. The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine whether Chevron should be overruled or clarified.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Roberts, C.J.)
Concurrence (Thomas, J.)
Concurrence (Gorsuch, J.)
Dissent (Kagan, J.)
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