Fifth Cir. Seeks Briefs On Chevron Ending’s Overtime Case Impact

The Fifth Circuit wants to know how the US Supreme Court’s ruling last week gutting a requirement that judges let agencies interpret ambiguous statutes should impact pending litigation over the US Labor Department’s 2019 overtime rule.

In a July 1 notice, the appeals court requested that business owner Robert Mayfield and the DOL provide briefs explaining how the lawsuit over the Trump-era rule should proceed in wake of the high court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.

The June 28 decision eliminated the legal precedent set by Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense ...