Businesses Quick to Deploy Chevron’s End to Attack Labor Rules

The US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling curbing agencies’ rulemaking power is already cropping up in numerous legal challenges to US Labor Department rules less than a week after the decision.

Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo has been cited in at least five lawsuits weighing DOL regulations on overtime pay eligibility, classification of workers as employees or independent contractors, and tipped workers’ wages.

The high court’s decision late last week overruled Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which had created a legal doctrine directing courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of laws that are ...