Justices grant four new cases, including Chevron companion case

Justices grant four new cases, including <em>Chevron</em> companion case

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The Supreme Court has added a second case asking it to overrule its landmark 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council to its docket for the 2023-24 term. The announcement came on a list of orders released on Friday afternoon from the justices’ private conference earlier in the day. The court will hear oral argument in both Relentless v. Department of Commerce, the case granted on Friday, and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which it agreed in … Read the rest

Justices add four new cases to their docket, including Bivens case, but won’t reconsider Bivens itself

Justices add four new cases to their docket, including <em>Bivens</em> case, but won’t reconsider <em>Bivens</em> itself

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Fifty years ago, in Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents, the Supreme Court ruled that a private individual could sue an FBI agent for violating his Fourth Amendment rights, even when there was not a specific law authorizing a claim for damages. In the nine years after Bivens, the court recognized Bivens claims for damages for violations of the Fifth and Eighth Amendments, but in 2017 it stressed that “expanding the Bivens remedy is now a … Read the rest