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Jul. 1, 2019

Administrative deference reaches its zero Auer

Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Kisor v. Wilkie dramatically rewrote the rules for deference, retaining so-called Auer deference in name only.

Steven B. Katz

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Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP

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USC Law School

Steven B. Katz is a partner and co-chair of the Appellate Practice Group at Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP. He represents employers in class, collective and representative actions, and appeals.

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Administrative deference reaches its zero Auer
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan, at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, Feb. 5, 2019. Roberts joined the court's liberal justices in the Kisor opinion, authored by Kagan. (New York Times News Service)

The bête-noir of conservative jurisprudence is the "administrative state," fueled by judicial doctrines affording various degrees of deference to administrative regulations, interpretive guidelines and pronouncements. Last week's Supreme Court decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 2019 DJDAR 8754 (June 26, 2019), dramatically rewrote the rules for deference, retaining so-called

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