Expect Narrowing of Chevron Doctrine, High Court Watchers Say

A panel of administrative law scholars and US Supreme Court watchers says the nation’s highest court is likely to narrow—if not overturn— its decades-old precedent in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a move that would significantly weaken the modern administrative state.

The prediction came as Bertrall Ross, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court also appears likely to use the major questions and non-delegation doctrines to put additional limits on agency power in the future.

The panelists said that a ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo that diminishes or does away ...