Northwest Ecosystem Alliance v. United States Fish And Wildlife Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reviewing court may not 26 substitute its judgment for the agency’s
• holding that NMFS's 1996 DPS policy was entitled to Chevron deference
• holding that NMFS’s 1996 DPS policy was entitled to Chevron deference
• noting that if a statute is ambiguous and 6 || Congress has delegated interpretative authority to the agency, then Chevron deference || applies and the agency’s “legislative regulations are given controlling weight’
• though not “a paragon of clarity * * *, the Service’s reasoning can be discerned with careful reading.”
• though not “a paragon of clarity * * *, the Service’s reasoning can be discerned with careful reading.”

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