{"id":43,"date":"2018-05-01T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:12:00","slug":"revisiting-seminole-rock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-16-number-1-winter-2018\/revisiting-seminole-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Seminole Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rule that reviewing courts must defer to agencies\u2019 interpretations of their own regulations has come under scrutiny in recent years. Critics contend that this doctrine, often associated with the 1997 Supreme Court decision <em>Auer v. Robbins<\/em>, violates the separation of powers, gives agencies perverse regulatory incentives, and undermines the judiciary\u2019s duty to say what the law is. This Article offers a different argument as to why <em>Auer<\/em> is literally and prosaically bad law. <em>Auer<\/em> deference appears to be grounded on a misunderstanding of its originating case, the 1945 decision <em>Bowles v. Seminole Rock<\/em>. A closer look at <em>Seminole Rock<\/em> suggests an unremarkable application of the less-deferential standard of review associated with the case <em>Skidmore v. Swift &amp; Co<\/em>. These conclusions shed new light on contemporary worries about <em>Auer<\/em> deference, ground the Court\u2019s recent limitations on the doctrine and lower the stakes for overruling it altogether. After <em>Auer<\/em>, the Court should return to <em>Seminole Rock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/05\/16-1-Revisiting-Seminole-Rock.pdf\">Keep Reading Revisiting Seminole Rock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rule that reviewing courts must defer to agencies\u2019 interpretations of their own regulations has come under scrutiny in recent years. Critics contend that this doctrine, often associated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":3,"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-43","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\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/2669"}],"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=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}