The U.S. Supreme Court overruled a doctrine that has been a precedence for judicial interpretation for the last 40 years. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC was overruled in an opinion penned by Chief Justice John Roberts in a 6-3 court decision.
“The Administrative Procedure Act [APA] requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous; Chevron is overruled,” the holding stated.
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