People of Michigan v. Robert Allen Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• presuming an undefined term “carries its ordinary meaning at the time the provision was enacted”
• declining to accord Chevron deference to agency letter “singularly focused” on the application of a regulation to one individual and not “clearly intended to have general applicability and the force of law” (citation omitted)
• finding no Chevron deference warranted for informal agency letter that was not “‘clearly intended to have general applicability and the force of law’ when the letter singularly focused on Kaufman.” (quoting Fox, 684 F.3d at 78)
• “[W]e generally do not apply Chevron deference when the statute in question is administered by multiple agencies.”
• relying on dictionaries to determine plain meaning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).