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The End of Deference: An Update from Arkansas

I recently posted about the states that had rejected deference in the past several years and noted that several more states were likely to reconsider deference in 2020. One state that I did not expect to see make the change was Arkansas whose state Supreme Court had as recently as 2014 had employed a highly deferential standard that said that an agency’s interpretation would not be disturbed unless it was “clearly wrong.”

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April 11, 2020