High Court Takes Case Seeking End Of Deference To EPA, Other Agencies

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that seeks to overturn the 21-year-old precedent that requires judges to defer to EPA and other agencies on the meaning of their regulations -- a precedent at the center of many court rulings backing EPA rules but one that many of the court's conservatives have openly criticized for years. In its Dec. 10 orders , the high court agreed to hear Kisor v. Wilkie , a suit by a Marine Corps...