U.S. Supreme Court, June 2024: overruled Chevron. Courts must now decide for themselves what a law means instead of deferring to the agency; an agency's view counts only as far as it persuades. Past rulings decided under Chevron still stand. Brought by herring fishermen forced to pay for federal monitors on their boats.
The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority … Chevron is overruled.
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U.S. Supreme Court, June 2024: overruled Chevron. Courts must now decide for themselves what a law means instead of deferring to the agency; an agency's view counts only as far as it persuades. Past rulings decided under Chevron still stand. Brought by herring fishermen forced to pay for federal monitors on their boats.