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If you're...

If you're a business.

If you're a business, and there's a business regulation that you don't like, what can you do about it?

Well, if you've got the money, you could call a guy like James Tice.

He specializes in regulatory litigation at the Aiken law firm, which is a fancy way of saying he specializes in suing government agencies.

Agencies often get things right, but like anyone else, they often get things right but like anyone else they often get things wrong and it can

significantly impact individuals and small businesses. When federal agencies make

rules and regulations they often have to interpret statues, laws and and

for a long time if you were a business looking to challenge an agency regulation,

the odds were stacked against you.

In cases where a question of statutory interpretation is genuinely ambiguous,

it used to be the case that courts would have to defer to a reasonable agency interpretation of the statute.

As we learned in yesterday's episode, this is because of a 40-year-old judicial doctrine known

as Chevron deference.

But then, a few weeks weeks ago the Supreme Court dropped a

bombshell. In its opinion for a case involving a company called Loperbright

Enterprises, a majority of the justices on the court declared Chevron deference is dead.

In the day since, James says he has been busy.

He's been talking to current and potential clients, companies and industries like energy and health care.

And while this new legal landscape has been good for James's firm,

the fallout from Loper Bright also has financial stakes for all of us.

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