Supreme Court Appears Ready To Favor Fishermen In Major Challenge To Administrative State
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Supreme Court Appears Ready To Favor Fishermen In Major Challenge To Administrative State

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to side with small fishing companies challenging decades-old precedent that instructs courts to give deference to agency interpretation of laws when the language is ambiguous‚ legal experts said. The court’s conservatives — namely Justices Samuel Alito‚ Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — repeatedly took issue with the government’s inability to define just when the “ambiguity” that requires deference to an agency’s reading of a law kicks in. But the...