Lance W. Lange
Lance Lange counsels businesses, trade associations and other organizations as an outside general counsel and lead trial lawyer who represents clients in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has handled a broad range of lawsuits, including single-plaintiff cases, class actions, mass actions and administrative proceedings. While he is always willing to take a lawsuit to trial, he strives to counsel clients to create compliance programs that will minimize the risk of litigation. His business cases have included breach of contract claims, consumer lending and consumer protection claims, antitrust claims, trademark and patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, claims under the Administrative Procedures Act and various other federal statutes, and real estate and environmental claims. Lance has represented clients in a wide range of industries, including food and agribusiness, financial services, telecommunications, media, and energy.
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Articles by Lance W. Lange:
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine of agency deference in its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision. The doctrine takes its name from a 1984 Supreme Court case, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc, 467 U.S. 837 (1984), which announced a bright-line rule governing whether a regulation promulgated by an executive branch agency, like FDA or USDA, was enforceable based on the scope of statutory authority Congress delegated to the agency. Chevron held that if a court concluded that a statute was silent or ambiguous as to an issue (Step One), then the court must defer to an agency’s permissible construction of the statute in the regulations it promulgated (Step Two). In overturning Chevron deference, Loper Bright announced that courts “must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.”
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