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Roy Tippitt v. State

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that the Commission’s commentaries do not deserve deference unless the Guidelines are “genuinely ambiguous” (internal quotation omitted)
  • applying Kisor to the Guidelines and concluding that a court may defer to commentary only if the Guidelines are ambiguous
  • “The specific governs the general in the interpretation of a legal text.”
  • invalidating § 2B1.1 cmt. n.3(F)(i)’s $500-per-access-device multiplier
  • invalidating § 2B1.1 cmt. n.3(F)(i)’s $500-per-access-device multiplier
  • only the Guidelines go through notice-and-comment rulemaking

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