Christopher v. Montgomery County Department of Health & Human Services

How courts have described this case

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

• “[The Court] owe[s] a higher level of deference to functions specifically committed to the agency’s discretion”
• “[T]he principles governing our interpretation of a statute apply when we interpret an agency rule or regulation.” (Citations omitted)
• “[T]he principles governing our interpretation of a statute apply when we interpret an agency rule or regulation.” (Citations omitted)
• “[T]he principles governing our interpretation of a statute apply when we interpret an agency rule or regulation.” (Citations omitted)
• “[W]e adhere to the established principle that a court will not decide a constitutional issue when a case can properly be disposed of on a non-constitutional ground.” (cleaned up)
• “[W]e adhere to the established principle that a court will not decide a constitutional issue when a case can properly be disposed of on a nonconstitutional ground.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).