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        the  actual  legal issue before  it. As                                                               ulation to issue employment autho-
                                                                                                              rization to noncitizens. Despite the
        Washtech was decided after the                                                  Simply go to your App Store or Play Store
        major questions doctrine was estab-                                                                   evisceration of Chevron deference,
        lished by the Supreme Court in West                                                                   courts need not rely on an agency’s
        Virginia v. EPA, it was assumed                                                                       interpretation of an INA provision
        that Washtech already considered it                                                                   in order to provide noncitizens with
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                                                                                                              work authorization, such as the INA
        Court’s holding in Save Jobs USA,                                                                     provisions that extend STEM OPT
        which relied on Washtech.                                                                             work authorization to F-1 students
            Save Jobs USA v. DHS also rep-                                                                    or provide work authorization to H-4
        resents one of the first instances of                                                                 spouses, because these statutory pro-
        a federal court upholding a regula-                                                                   visions are not ambiguous in the first
                                                                                                              instance.
        tory provision notwithstanding the                                              Login|Register with your eMail then
        demise  of  Chevron  deference.  In                                                                     *KAITLYN BOX IS A SENIOR ASSOCIATE AT
        its June 28, 2024 decision in Loper   not ambiguous in the first place.  that courts can rely on direct authori-  CYRUS D. MEHTA & PARTNERS PLLC.
        Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,       Save Jobs USA v. DHS affirms  zation from DHS to promulgate reg-
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        the  Supreme  Court  abolished  the
        long-standing Chevron doctrine,   ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
        which held that courts were required  Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta &
        to defer to the government agency’s  Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Committee;
        reasonable interpretation of an am-  former chair of AILA’s Ethics Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee,
        biguous statute. We have discussed  Appellate Division, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigration; board member of Volunteers
        Loper Bright at length in a previous  for Legal Services and board member of New York Immigration Coalition.  Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the Board of Trustees
        blog. In footnote 2 in Save Jobs USA  of the American Immigration Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New York
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        v. DHS, the DC Circuit stated that  City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related issues, including on ethics, and is also an
        “Washtech did not depend on Chev-  adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches a course entitled Immigration and Work.  Mr. Mehta received
        ron” because Washtech had applied  the AILA 2018 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law and the AILA 2011 Michael
        Chevron as a “counter-factual, fall-  Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the immigration field. He has also
        back argument”, but this did not  received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010 and 2016.  Mr. Mehta is ranked among the most highly regarded lawyers
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        alter Washtech’s holding that INA  in North America by Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked in Chambers USA and Chambers
        214(a)(1) and INA 101(a)(3) were  Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.


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