The End of Chevron Deference: What It Means for False Claims Act Litigation

Under the Supreme Court’s decision in Chevron USA Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), for decades courts have sometimes been required “to defer to ‘permissible’ agency interpretations of [ambiguities in] statutes those agencies administer—even when a reviewing court reads the statute differently.”  This is known as “Chevron deference” or the “Chevron doctrine.”  Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. __, 2024 WL 3208360, at *16 (June 28, 2024).  Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron and held that courts “may not defer to agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.” Id. at *62.  

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