On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court eliminated Chevron deference and required that statutory ambiguities be resolved by the courts. This was welcome news for WLF, which joined the Independent Women’s Law Center in filing an amicus brief supporting the petitioners. As WLF’s amicus brief showed, federal agencies overreach their statutory mandates by invoking Chevron. This leads to more regulations, which invariably harm small businesses because they face disproportionately high costs complying with regulations. The brief was authored by Gene C. Schaerr and Annika Boone Barkdull of Schaerr | Jaffe LLP and Kathryn E. Tarbert, formerly of Schaerr | Jaffe.
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