chenery-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-784 Arch Resources, Inc., fka Arch Coal, et al. v. Douglas Pennington, Acting Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-law agency-action black-lung-benefits chenery-doctrine circuit-split judicial-review Did the Sixth Circuit err in not applying the SEC v. Chenery Corp. rule to Black Lung Benefits Act cases, contrary to other circuit court interpretati…
24-450 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure Whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr…
23-543 Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims When the VA fails to adjudicate a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, without running afoul…
20-1190 Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery?
20-150 ThermoLife International LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied administrative-patent-judges appellate-review appointments-clause chenery-doctrine constitutional-appointment patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers rehearing unconstitutional-appointments Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Chenery doctrine
19-221 Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security Sixth Circuit 2019-08-20 Dismissed Amici (3) administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation Whether the Commissioner of Social Security can impose monetary sanctions on a disability benefits recipient for failing to report unpaid volunteer wo…
18-983 City of Mackinac Island, Michigan, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-01-29 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chenery-doctrine federal-power-act judicial-review regulatory-agency retroactive-rate-increase retroactive-rate-increases statutory-construction Does the prohibition against retroactive rate increases set forth in Section 206(a) of the Federal Power Act foreclose a judicially created exception …
18-7193 Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Seventh Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician What is the standard for assessing harmless error when a treating doctor has provided a form medical opinion statement that an applicant for social se…