Eleventh Circuit Finds FDA Treatment of Vaping Product Marketing Applications to be Arbitrary & Capricious
The likelihood that the Supreme Court considers the FDA's treatment of vaping products is increasing.
The likelihood that the Supreme Court considers the FDA's treatment of vaping products is increasing.
Assessing an aggressive Fifth Circuit opinion declaring Securities & Exchange Commission proceedings unconstituional.
Regulators imposed the ban based on a highly implausible and counterintuitive reading of federal law.
My forthcoming article the good, the bad, and the likely implications of the Supreme Court's decision West Virginia v. EPA
The Court should assimilate the “major questions” doctrine of West Virginia v. EPA and its precedents—including Chevron and what came even before that—to an approach that asks whether Congress has made an actual delegation. Only this will serve the relevant separation-of-powers principle.
The major questions doctrine inverts the Chevron doctrine, is indeterminate, and, as a practical matter, will encourage courts to engage in something more akin to political punditry than law.
The Court did not engage with the doctrine directly (as opposed to simply creating an exception to it). How, in fact, would the case have been decided under Chevron?
A correct interpretation of the statute at issue—Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act—does not give the EPA the authority to issue the sort of regulations at issue in the case.
Deciding the case might have been squarable with Article III, but not the way Court went about it.
It may now require notice and comment to rescind final rules that were never published in the Federal Register.
My review of Reviving Rationality:Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health by Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz.
The Supreme Court is skeptical of agency efforts to pour new wine out of old bottles.
The Supreme Court proclaimed this term that the Lemon test had been abandoned. Is this what is in story for Chevron?
Something is wrong at the Food & Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products, and federal courts are beginning to notice.
What should courts do when an agency action is based upon scientific evidence within the agency's expertise, but also implicates heightened scrutiny?
In her forceful West Virginia v. EPA dissent, Justice Kagan challenges the majority's commitment to textualism.
Chief Justice Roberts final opinion of the term rejects the statutory challenge to the Biden Administration's rescission of the "Remain in Mexico" policy.
Chief Justice Roberts writes for a six-justice majority in West Virginia v. EPA.
American Hospital Association v. Becerra is another indication that lower courts are too quick to give agencies Chevron deference.
The Supreme Court has decided not to decide an important question relating to flips in federal policy when Administrations turn over.
Justice Gorsuch has dissented from two-thirds of Justice Barrett's majority opinions this term.
Without opinion the justices rejected Louisiana's application to vacate a lower court stay.
Not a single judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sought to reconsider a stay of a district court opinion barring consideration of the Biden Administration's social cost of carbon estimates.
In a brief per curiam opinion, the Fifth Circuit concludes the plaintiff states lack standing to press their claims.
At today's oral argument, the justices explored Section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the major questions doctrine, justiciability and the regulation of advertising for four-foot cigars smoked through hookahs.
The most important environmental case of the 2021-22 term will be heard next week.
Well-intentioned regulation often constrains the development and deployment of clean technologies.
Why the arguments the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to hear the latest climate change case likely lack merit.
A federal district court has taken the unusual step of enjoining an Executive Order setting forth an Administration's regulatory priorities.
An interesting exchange on the implications of early agency power to revise tax assessments.
A unanimous panel rejects a Trump Administration change to rules on collective bargaining for government workers.
Insofar as the Court was concerned about pretext, it may be more difficult for the EPA to reduce greenhouse gases using regulatory authority to control emissions.
The Sacketts get a return trip to the Supreme Court.
Another contribution to recent scholarship on whether the Nondelegation Doctrine is properly rooted in the Constitution's original meaning and founding era understandings.
Assorted observations on yesterday's opinions, what they mean, and what comes next.
By divided votes, the justices entered stayed t the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard and stayed the lower court injunctions against the mandate that Medicare and Medicaid service providers require their employees to get vaccinated.
Does it matter that the year Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act was as proximate to the Spanish Flu as to today?
The panel rejects the argument that the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act allows the federal government to require vaccination for nearly one-fifth of the American workforce.
The question of whether to stay the BIden Administration rule requiring large employers to mandate vaccinations or testing is now before the Supreme Court.
My review of Philip Hamburger's new book, Purchasing Submission.
The Biden Administration is seeking to stay lower court injunctions against the mandate.
The district court's justification for a nationwide injunction was decidedly lacking.
A majority of judges on the court did not vote in favor of the petitions for initial hearing en banc, so the challenge will be heard by a three-judge panel
The justices show little interest in vaping regulation on the shadow docket, but may yet review the FDA's behavior in the regular course.
Now that a federal appeals court has weighed in, the CMS mandate may reach One First Street.
Two federal district courts have now ruled against the mandate for federal contractors.
The district court decision upholding the ATF's conclusion that bump stocks constitute unlawful "machine guns" is upheld by an equally divided court.
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