Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, EXPERT INSIGHTS—Loper Bright’s impact on statutory and regulatory interpretation in administrative law, (Dec 19, 2025)
Loper Bright rejected the idea that statutory ambiguity implies a delegation of policymaking discretion to agencies and emphasized the importance of judicial independence.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo is known for overturning Chevron deference as inconsistent with the Administrative Procedure Act. However, the decision did so much more than that. In one fell swoop, the Court swept away much of forty years of jurisprudence regarding judicial review of agency interpretations of statutes and raised many adjacent legal issues.
In this latest Expert Insights, titled “Loper Bright’s Impact on Statutory and Regulatory Interpretation in Administrative Law,” University of Minnesota Law School Professor Kristin E. Hickman—co-author of Wolters Kluwer’s Administrative Law Treatise, Seventh Edition—explores how the landmark decision reaffirms the judiciary’s role in interpreting statutes, limits the scope of agency discretion, and emphasizes the importance of clear congressional authorization for agency policymaking.
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