State of Iowa v. Montel Curtis Reed

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a court must exhaust all the traditional tools of construction” before “resort[ing] to Auer deference” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that courts must “exhaust all the traditional tools of construction” when analyzing agency regulations
• holding that, to determine whether a regulation “is genuinely ambiguous, a court must exhaust all the traditional tools of construction” (cleaned up)
• holding that, if a regulation is unambiguous, \[t]he regulation then just means what it means—and the court must give it effect\
• holding that to “exhaust all the traditional tools of construction” courts 20 must “carefully consider the text, structure, history, and purpose of a regulation” 21 (cleaned up)
• holding that “the possibility 38 USCA4 Appeal: 23-4352 Doc: 46 Filed: 08/23/2024 Pg: 39 of 51 of deference can arise only if a regulation is genuinely ambiguous”

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