Date: August 21, 2024 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST

If you miss the live event, the webinar will be recorded and available to you on-demand.

Cost: Free to SPBA members

Registration Link: https://spba.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=202909

Speaker: Jason Lacey, Esq., Principal, Lacey Law, P.A.,

Join the SPBA Webinar, August 21, 2024 at 1 p.m. to Attorney Jason Lacey, Principal, Lacey Law, P.A., discuss the case decision and answer questions on how TPAs should view Federal Agency regulatory interpretation in the future.

Description: The decades-long doctrine of Chevron deference mandated that, if a statute did not directly address the “precise question at issue” or if there was ambiguity in how to interpret the statute, courts had to accept an agency’s “permissible” or “reasonable” interpretation of a law unless it was contrary to the statute. A recent Supreme Court opinion, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Dept of Commerce, turned that doctrine on its head when Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the doctrine saying the “deference that Chevron requires of courts reviewing agency action cannot be squared with the Administrative Procedure Act.” Most importantly, SCOTUS maintained, Chevron was “misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do.”

Learning Objectives:

• Learn what this new decision means to regulatory interpretations from all Federal government Agencies like IRS, DOL, EEOC.
• Does this mean that all regulations are thrown out the window?
• Will there be a review of all regulations TPAs rely on?
• What can TPAs expect in reviewing future regulations that apply to their clients?