After Chevron: Conservation Rule Already Faces Challenges

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a decades-old precedent, known as Chevron deference, that favored federal agencies' rulemaking interpretations. In this Expert Analysis for Law360, Stacey Bosshardt and Stephanie Regenold discuss the decision's likely impact on rulemaking and litigation across practice areas.

Just two months have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, but litigants are already using it to challenge agency regulations in the field of environmental law and natural resource management to overturn and otherwise test the boundaries of that ruling.[1]