One ruling. One ruling is all it took for the U.S. Supreme Court to slaughter the independent, bipartisan operations of a federal agency established by Congress more than 100 years ago. One ruling is also all it took to introduce significantly more regulatory upheaval for the compliance profession.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...