{"id":3584,"date":"2018-12-18T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/employerdefensereport.com\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:45:32","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-legal-challenge-to-auer-deference-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connmaciel.com\/employer-defense-report\/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-legal-challenge-to-auer-deference-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Legal Challenge to Auer Deference Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"shutterstock_gavel\"In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Auer v. Robbins<\/em>, establishing the standard for what has become known as Auer deference (or Seminole Rock Deference from Bowles v. Seminole Rock and Sand Co. <\/em>(1945)).\u00a0 This decision and the standard it set is significant for employers because it gives substantial latitude to federal agencies, like the Department of Labor, to interpret their own ambiguous standards.\u00a0 Specifically, in Auer<\/em>, the Supreme Court held that an Agency\u2019s, in this case the Department of Labor, interpretation of its own standards is \u201ccontrolling unless \u2018plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 In other words, if it\u2019s not clear what is required by the plain language of the standard, the Court will generally defer to the Agency\u2019s own reasonable interpretations of its regulations.<\/p>\n

However, the Supreme Court will now have the opportunity to reconsider Auer deference in the case of Kisor v. Wilkie<\/em>.\u00a0 On December 10, 2018, the Court agreed to review<\/a> Question 1 of the petition for certiorari, which specifically asks “[w]hether the Court should overrule Auer\u00a0<\/em>and Seminole Rock<\/em>.”\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In the Kisor <\/em>case, a Vietnam Veteran, James L. Kisor, challenged the Department of Veterans Affairs\u2019 (“the Department”) interpretation of its regulation governing the standards for reconsideration of claims for disability benefits.\u00a0 The Board of Veterans\u2019 Appeals rejected Mr. Kisor\u2019s request for an earlier effective date for his retroactive benefits because he failed to provide documentation that met the Department’s interpretation of \u201crelevant\u201d records to support his request.\u00a0 Relying on Auer deference, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found the meaning of the term \u201crelevant\u201d in the applicable regulation ambiguous and, although it determined both Mr. Kisor’s and the Department’s interpretations of the term reasonable, deferred to the Department\u2019s interpretation.\u00a0 As a result, it upheld the Department’s decision to deny an earlier effective date for Mr. Kisor\u2019s disability benefits.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has had prior chances to take up the issue of Auer deference, including one as recent as March 2018.\u00a0 In Garco Construction, Inc. v. Speer<\/em>, a majority of the Court denied the petition for certiorari, but Justices Thomas and Gorsuch dissented from that decision<\/a>.\u00a0 In his dissent, Justice Thomas highlighted the main arguments against Auer deference, explaining that it passes the \u201cinterpretive judgment\u201d of a judge to the agency and \u201cundermines\u201d the judiciary\u2019s check on the branches of government by \u201cceding the courts\u2019 authority to independently interpret and apply legal texts.\u201d\u00a0 He also stated that the current standard puts the authority to change the interpretation of a regulation in the hands of the same Agency that promulgated it.\u00a0 This dissent provides some insight into the arguments against maintaining the Auer deference standard that will likely be made before the Court in Kisor<\/em>, as well as the lens the Court itself may use in reconsidering the standard.<\/p>\n

Based on the current make-up of the Supreme Court, there is a good chance it will use this opportunity to limit the current latitude given to an Agency\u2019s own interpretation of its regulations.\u00a0 With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Court on October 6, 2018, the ideological majority became conservative with Justice Kavanaugh joining Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.\u00a0 Some of the conservative members of the Supreme Court, such as Justice Thomas, have publicly criticized Auer deference in the past.\u00a0 In addition, the Court\u2019s newest member, Justice Kavanaugh, has shown some skepticism toward broad Agency authority and has expressed his belief that Auer deference would eventually be replaced.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s decision on Auer deference in Kisor v. Wilkie <\/em>could significantly alter the level of deference currently given Agencies in interpreting their own regulations, as well as how they are able to enforce those interpretations against the regulated community, including employers.\u00a0 We will be monitoring the outcome of this case and any change made to the current standard of deference given to Agency interpretations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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