Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \a court may not substitute its own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency\
• concluding that an agency deserves deference where its policy “represents a reasonable accommodation of manifestly competing interests”
• holding that where Congress has explicitly delegated responsibility to an agency, the regulation deserves “controlling weight”
• holding that, when statutory language is ambiguous, courts should defer to the reasonable interpretation of the agency charged by Congress with implementing the statute
• holding that if a court finds ambiguity in the federal statute, it must defer to the administrating agency’s interpretation if that interpretation is reasonable.
• holding that an alien could establish past persecution, and thereby qualify as a “refugee” under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42), based on his wife’s sterilization

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).