Sponsored By: ABA Section of Environment, Energy & Resources – Spring Conference
Date: Thursday, April 4 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Location: Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel Chicago, Chicago, IL
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By the end of this term, the Supreme Court could redefine the administrative state as we know it through three cases: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, and SEC v. Jarkesy. The first two cases could reshape the Chevron doctrine, which for nearly four decades has compelled federal courts to defer to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute. The third could limit the ability of agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use administrative tribunals in enforcement actions, impacting decades of practice by environmental law practitioners before administrative law judges and reinvigorating the nondelegation doctrine. This panel will discuss how decisions in these cases could affect environmental regulation in the United States by restricting the administrative powers of agencies like EPA.
- Panelists Kirti Datla, Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, Earthjustice, Washington, DC
- Norman Dupont (Moderator), Ring Bender LLP, Newport Beach, CA
- Jennifer Fischell, MoloLamken LLP, Washington, DC
- Sean Kelley, Student, Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS
- Christopher J. Walker, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI
- Panel Liaison: Gene Schmittgens, Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, PC, Chesterfield, MO
