Matters like antitrust cases against AI players, Adobe's subscription mess, and net neutrality could be decided by judges – not expertsThe US Supreme Court has ruled that the judges should no longer defer to government agency interpretations of ambiguous laws – a decision with potential ramifications for some of the biggest cases against tech companies.
Justice Elena Kagan, in a dissenting opinion joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, characterized the ruling as a judicial power grab, because it invites judges to make determinations previously trusted to government agencies and expert staff. The Natural Resources Defense Council – the progressive environment group that lost in the 1984 Chevron case – warned the end of Chevron deference is a recipe for chaos, because judges all over the county will be called upon to interpret ambiguous laws.