Supreme Court Orders Redo of Wetlands Dispute Post-Chevron

The Eighth Circuit must reconsider whether a South Dakota farmer’s land qualifies as a wetland after the Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Chevron doctrine last week.

The high court on Tuesday vacated the previous judgment and remanded the case to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, making the case among the first batch returned to lower courts after the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision on June 28.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the decades-old Chevron doctrine, which allowed courts to rely on regulators’ interpretation ...