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· 6/19/1981

Venita Tsosie v. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Citations

  • 651 F.2d 719
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 12152

How courts have described this case

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

  • “The Secretary’s construction is not entitled to special deference to the extent it rests on the interpretation of another agency’s statutes and regulations.”
  • Tenth Circuit case rejecting as “unduly legalistic and technical” the Secretary’s interpretation of VA regulations relating to the calculation of income
  • Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare's construction of agency regulations \is not entitled to special deference to the extent that it rests on the interpretation of another agency's statutes and regulations\
  • Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare’s construction of agency regulations “is not entitled to special deference to the extent that it rests on the interpretation of another agency’s statutes and regulations”

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Judges: Doyle, Breitenstein, Seymour

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