{"id":27,"date":"2018-05-01T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:12:01","slug":"auer-evasions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-16-number-1-winter-2018\/auer-evasions\/","title":{"rendered":"Auer Evasions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Auer v. Robbins<\/em> requires federal courts to defer to federal agency interpretations of ambiguous regulations. <em>Auer<\/em> built upon, and arguably expanded, the Court\u2019s long-standing practice of deferring to agency interpretations of their own regulations born in <em>Bowles v. Seminole Rock<\/em>. Although initially uncontroversial, the doctrine has come under fire from legal commentators and prominent jurists, including <em>Auer<\/em>\u2019s author, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. As Justice Scalia came to recognize, <em>Auer<\/em> deference enables agencies to evade a wide range of legal constraints that are otherwise imposed upon agency behavior, the ability of agencies to take action with the force of law in particular. This brief Article seeks to explain how the practice of <em>Auer<\/em> deference undermines\u2014 and facilitates the evasion of\u2014basic administrative law principles of accountability, notice, responsibility, and finality. After reviewing <em>Auer<\/em> history and considering these evasions, the Article, ponders whether we are approaching <em>Auer<\/em>\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/16-1-Auer-Evasions.pdf\">Keep Reading Auer Evasions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auer v. Robbins requires federal courts to defer to federal agency interpretations of ambiguous regulations. Auer built upon, and arguably expanded, the Court\u2019s long-standing practice of deferring to agency interpretations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/2672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}