Women Involved in Farm Economics v. United States Department of Agriculture

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that when an agency acts under express definitional authority, the ultimate question is whether the agency’s definition is “a reasonable interpretation of the statute”
• suggesting that when an agency acts under express definitional authority, the ultimate question is whether the agency's definition is \a reasonable interpretation of the statute\
• explaining that Chenery “ordinarily prevents agency counsel from proffering alternative theories — not explicitly embraced by a department or agency head— to support a challenged regulation”
• noting Congress’s “explicit recognition of the Secretary’s regulations is entitled to some weight”
• reliance on an argument of counsel “might actually restrict improperly the agency’s future freedom of action”
• agency counsel is prevented from “proffering alternative theories—not explicitly embraced by a department or agency head—to support a challenged regulation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).