As the dust settles from the high-octane Supreme Court term that ended last month, one clear winner has emerged: the “regulated community.”

Three opinions limiting the power of federal agencies were met with cheers from a range of industries that, while not always in agreement, unite under that banner of mutual resistance to regulatory fiat.

Their trade associations had written a slew of amicus briefs urging the justices to scrap a decades-old legal doctrine called Chevron deference, under which courts had deferred to administrative expertise.

How it’s pronounced

/ˈre-gyə-lā-təd kə-myü-nə-tē/

“Amici’s members and the rest of the regulated community have for 15 years labored under an unlawfully broad agency interpretation of a key statute,” agribusiness and construction interests lamented in an amicus brief, “at great expense in terms both of compliance costs, lost opportunities and the costs of repeatedly litigating to try to right that wrong.”