Village of Barrington v. Surface Transportation Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an agency warrants deference at Chevron step two “only if the agency has offered a reasoned explanation for why it chose that interpretation” judged according to “only the rationales the [agency] actually offered in its decision”
• holding that an agency warrants deference at Chevron step two “only if the agency has offered a reasoned explanation for why it chose that interpretation” judged according to “only the rationales the [agency] actually offered in its decision”
• determining that where a “statutory ambiguity has left the agency with a range of possibilities and [ ] the agency’s interpretation falls within that range,” Chevron’s first step has been met
• observing that Congress may speak directly to the precise question at issue \either by prescribing a precise course of conduct\ for the agency or by setting forth a clearly delineated \range of interpretive discretion\
• observing that Congress may speak directly to the precise question at issue “either by prescribing a precise course of conduct” for the agency or by setting forth a clearly delineated “range of interpretive discretion”
• giving no deference to an agency’s \‘litigating positions’ raised for the first time on judicial review\

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