Re:Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling
by mushufasa on Friday June 28, 2024 @09:56PM
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Think bigger. You're NovoNordisk. FDA says ozempic is safe for use. A local California court bans it because they say it hasn't been properly tested and endangers Californians. Billion dollar market, wiped off the map. Now New York is following path. You can try to fight it but either way you've suffered incredible repetitional damage: FUD (fear uncertainty and denial) is now forevermore "the drug that California banned for being unsafe."
Or, imagine a texas court banning COVID vaccines.
These are not hypotheticals, these are real court cases that could now swing against agencies.
Whatever your opinion on specific factual matters, everyone should be concerned about widespread disorder.
Spurious lawsuits annoying small businesses is already the case in America. I've defended against plenty of them. The concept of someone using random lawsuits to target local courts to overturn federal agency policy is very far removed from a businessowner's mind compared to the other types of litigation that actually happens on a regular basis.