A Farewell To Chevron: SCOTUS Overturns the 40-Year-Old Precedent, Deeply Widening the Path for Government Contractors and Other Private Parties to Challenge Agency Interpretations of Statutes

Dentons – Almost exactly 40 years ago, the United States Supreme Court established the Chevron doctrine, which required that federal courts defer to federal agencies in their interpretation of statutes that are silent or ambiguous on a specific issue, provided the agency’s interpretation was a “permissible construction” of the law.