Professor Kristin Hickman's Blog
It’s always of interest when the Supreme Court takes up an issue on which one has expended substantial scholarly ink. Such is the case for me with Trump v. Pennsylvania and its companion, Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. The Court in this case granted certiorari to address three...
The Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, also known as the bumpstocks case. The D.C. Circuit relied on Chevron deference in upholding the regulations banning bumpstocks. In a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, Justice Gorsuch objected to the D.C. Circuit’s...
Last week, Aaron Nielson and I posted on SSRN our forthcoming article, Narrowing Chevron‘s Domain, 70 Duke L.J. (forthcoming 2021). Skeptical that the Supreme Court actually will overturn Chevron deference (its rhetoric notwithstanding), we wanted to think carefully about how the Court might curtail Chevron‘s scope to mitigate some of...