Webinar replay: The new administrative state: implications of recent landmark Supreme Court rulings for federal regulations, agency deference, and state implementation
This webinar was held on August 14, 2024.
While legal experts assess the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, federal and state agency leaders face significant questions about how their agencies and their responsibilities will be impacted. This webinar featured insightful discussions with former federal and state agency leaders exploring the known and yet-to-be determined impacts of recent rulings on federal regulations, rulemaking and actions, and agency deference, and also explored the impact on state agencies implementing federal rules. The webinar addressed the impact of the pivotal Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and West Virginia v. EPA decisions. Together these decisions overturned the longstanding Chevron deference doctrine, are pushing Congress to craft more specific legislation, and are directing courts to interpret ambiguous statutes. The discussion also explored the most appropriate responses of agency leaders, anticipated the ways that these decisions impact federal and state agency decision-making, and identified areas of growing uncertainty.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what we know about the impact of these decisions on agency rulemaking and decision making, consider the impact on federal agency discretion, and understand the shift in power towards Congress and judicial interpretation
- Analyze the likely impact on agency rulemaking processes
- Explore state governance issues, both as a partner to federal agencies and as an implementer of federal policy and funds
- Identify the most important questions yet to be answered
Speakers:
- Governor Mike Leavitt, Advisor, Health Management Associates and founder of Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company, former HHS Secretary and EPA Administrator
- Chuck Milligan, JD, MPH, CEO, Health Management Associates, former State Medicaid Director
- Amy Comstock Rick, JD, Principal, Leavitt Partners, an HMA Company
