Sniffin v. Cline

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that deference must be afforded to reasonable and permissible construction of a statute by the DMV because it has “policymaking authority” with regard to the statute
• distinguishing between silence and ambiguity of statute interpreted by agency (citing Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984))
• “[t]he circuit court’s adjudicatory interpretation of these statutes is entitled to no special deference and is subject to our independent review”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).