Most of the regulations from the Obama administration working their way through the courts raise an issue concerning Chevron deference. The Supreme Court has before it a case, Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, raising the question whether Chevron deference trumps the rule of lenity in criminal cases. Auer deference has also come under attack in recent years. As with Chevron, in some circumstances the Court has declined to apply Auer deference altogether. Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 132 S.Ct. 2156 (2012). In other cases, individual Justices have argued that it is time to reconsider Auer deference.
Brickeyee is on the point. ALL PEX piping uses some sort of Barb fitting with a compression ring. I have never ever heard of a single failure with this type system. Compression fittings use a ferrule either brass or plastic. The brass ferrule bites into the pipe wall, but the plastic ferrule does not. It is not a surprise to me that a Compression fitting which has a plastic ferrule failed.
Pex Pipe. Cross-linked polyethylene piping is commonly called pex pipe. It is the material used for water supply in domestic plumbing. The Uponor/Wirsbo sprinkler systems and the Kwench fire sprinkler systems in NFPA 13D fire sprinkler systems use this 1/2 pex pipe in interconnection with the domestic plumbing. NFPA 13 requires that fire sprinkler system piping be listed for no less than 175 psi, and be able to withstand a hydrostatic test of 200 psi for 2 hrs, and in some cases slightly more than 200 psi.