High Court, Congress Eye Steps To Limit Or Repeal Deference To Agencies

The Supreme Court is weighing a new legal brief that says deferring to EPA and other agencies' informal guidance unfairly cuts stakeholders out of what are effectively rulemakings and that justices should limit such deference, while House Republicans are planing to move legislation that would scrap the deference doctrine entirely. A Jan. 6 amicus brief filed with the high court by the group Safe Spaces For Women in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. urges the justices against deferring to...