Ball v. Emerald Investment, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that an agency’s guidance documents may explain an agency’s regulations
• casting doubt on the applicable level of deference to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous regulation
• surveying the different types of agency rules and the deference judicially accorded to each
• citing, inter alia , Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc. , 467 U.S. 837 , 844-45, 104 S.Ct. 2778 , 2782-83, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984)
• setting forth standards for challenges to deference and procedural validity of non-legislative rules
• noting courts should defer to guidance documents that “explain preexisting legal obligations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).