Chevron’s End Unlikely as Justices Weigh Agency Power (Correct)

A landmark precedent on the interplay between executive agencies, courts, and Congress is unlikely to fall despite the US Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case asking the justices to do just that, legal scholars say.

Four family-owned and -operated fisheries say the court’s 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natl Resources Defense Council demanding deference to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute has allowed bureaucrats to amass massive power. They say it’s time for the so-called Chevron doctrine to go.

Administrative law experts don’t expect the justices to overturn Chevron entirely, pointing to previous cases where the court ...