Someday, I’d love to retire from the job of a lifetime with just one sentence. So here’s something interesting. The tech community is (rightly) up in arms about the implications of the DC Circuit Court’s ruling in Comcast v. FCC on the national broadband plan.  The administrative law community (yes, it exists) is up in arms about the same ruling for a different reason: it calls into question Chevron v. NRDC, which stands for the notion of “administrative deference”, i.e., if an agency polices a statute, the court will defer to that agency’s interpretation.   Why is this relevant?  Two reasons: Chevron is the most cited decision in the history of SCOTUS (that’s just cool to know) and Chevron was written by Justice Stevens Happy retirement, Mr. Justice.

Someday, I’d love to retire from the job of a lifetime with just one sentence.

So here’s something interesting. The tech community is (rightly) up in arms about the implications of the DC Circuit Court’s ruling in Comcast v. FCC on the national broadband plan.  The administrative law community (yes, it exists) is up in arms about the same ruling for a different reason: it calls into question Chevron v. NRDC, which stands for the notion of “administrative deference”, i.e., if an agency polices a statute, the court will defer to that agency’s interpretation.  

Why is this relevant?  Two reasons:

  1. Chevron is the most cited decision in the history of SCOTUS (that’s just cool to know) and
  2. Chevron was written by Justice Stevens

Happy retirement, Mr. Justice.

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