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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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Would they strike down Roe and Casey , as lawyers for Mississippi urged them to do, or would they stop short of formally overruling those cases but still uphold the state’s ban? Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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