US Supreme Court ruling curbs power of federal agencies

The conservative-majority US Supreme Court on Friday overturned 40 years of legal precedent that held courts should defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretation of a law if the language is ambiguous. “Courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous,” said the majority opinion written by Chief […]

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