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Patent Puzzles after the Supreme Court’s 2024 Administrative Law Cases: Stare Decisis, Rulemaking, and Discretion

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Latty Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law In a flurry of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has continued its skepticism of administrative agencies. deference to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes) in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Rai , Elvin R.

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Justices decisively reject imposing issue exhaustion on Social Security claimants

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In this case, for example, the claimants in agency proceedings from 2013 to 2015 did not know that a 2018 decision of the Supreme Court would invalidate the SSA’s process for appointing administrative law judges, and so they did not complain about that process before the agency.

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Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies

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Share In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. By a vote of 6-3, the justices overruled their landmark 1984 decision in Chevron v.

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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S.

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Justices divided over SEC’s ability to impose fines in administrative proceedings

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The justices said not a word about the second challenge, and they made only one offhand comment about the third challenge, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested in passing that the administrative law judges’s appointments won’t pass muster with him. It just can’t take away a person’s right to be heard before his peers.”

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In back-to-back cases, justices will scrutinize traditional limits on challenges to agency proceedings

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The first case involves Axon Enterprise, an Arizona company that makes police body cameras and other technology products for law enforcement. The general federal jurisdiction statute ( 28 U.S.C. Axon has been mired in FTC investigations and proceedings since it purchased a competitor in 2018.

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Justices seem receptive to opening up early challenges to agency proceedings

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The two cases involve substantively identical statutes that govern challenges to final orders issued by the FTC and the SEC. In each case, the statutes provide that the sole method for challenging those orders is a petition for review in the court of appeals. Those are the two statutes we have. Again, what am I missing?

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