| 24-981 |
Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, pka Ed Sheeran, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
|
agency-interpretation chevron-deference copyright-law first-impression legal-judgment second-circuit |
1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously abdicate its responsibility to "decide legal questions by applying their own judgment " by inst… |
| 24-690 |
Leslie E. Carr, et al. v. New York Division of Housing & Community Renewal, et al. |
New York |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference agency-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection state-courts |
Whether, under proper application of
Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo,
state courts should no longer mechanically
defer to a state administrativ… |
| 24-536 |
M&T Farms v. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference farming-activity statutory-interpretation whole-farm-revenue-protection |
Auer deference allows courts to defer to an agency's interpretation of ambiguous regulations, but only after exhausting traditional interpretive tools… |
| 24-270 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation line-extension medicaid-rebate new-drug-application statutory-construction |
1. Does a decision that upholds an agency statutory interpretation merely because it is "perfectly sensible" or "reasonable and consistent with the st… |
| 24-5429 |
Kemnorris Kinsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation judicial-deference sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether the administrative law principles set forth in Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019) limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing C… |
| 24A101 |
Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference loper-bright nlrb-decision retroactive-application |
Question not identified. |
| 24A53 |
Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, et al. v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference endangered-species-act environmental-statutes loper-bright |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7513 |
Russell Foreman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation circuit-split deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), limit the deference owed to the United States Senten… |
| 23-7338 |
Damon Sean Bellis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
The Court held in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019),
that before a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its
regulation, the court mu… |
| 23-7122 |
James Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-interpretation circuit-split judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6907 |
Tryton Alonzo Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6855 |
William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing |
In recent years, this Court and commentators alike have expressed increasing alarm over the unbridled deference afforded to agency bureaucrats' interp… |
| 23-6526 |
Larry Coates v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sentencing Commission, when interpreting the Guidelines, should receive a more deferential version of Auer deference than all other federa… |
| 23-6500 |
Jimmy Lee Smart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-conflict criminal-sentencing federal-agencies judicial-deference kisor-standard regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6486 |
Schuyler Algernon Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-courts judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-6485 |
Keaton Lamar Shaw v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie policy-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-715 |
Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
agency-deference agency-interpretation benefits-eligibility disproportionate-share-hospital hospital-payments low-income-patients medicare-part-a medicare-reimbursement ssi-benefits statutory-interpretation |
Does the phrase "entitled … to benefits," used twice in the same sentence of the Medicare Act, mean the same thing for Medicare part A and SSI, such t… |
| 23-693 |
Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations |
The question presented is whether district courts may, under Skidmore, give deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations w… |
| 23-6312 |
Andre Reese v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary to the Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23A497 |
KC Transport, Inc. v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference mine-safety national-cement-doctrine statutory-ambiguity |
Whether the D.C. Circuit's National Cement doctrine—under which a court must remand to the agency for a revised interpretation of a statute that the a… |
| 23-5875 |
Andres Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
agency-interpretation auer-deference circuit-split federal-criminal-sentencing judicial-deference kisor-standard kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the standard for triggering judicial deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations, as clarified in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. C… |
| 23-310 |
Cory Ratzloff v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the administrative law principles
articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the
United States Sentencing Commission's commentary
on the… |
| 22-360 |
Veteran Warriors, Inc., et al. v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference judicial-review pro-veteran-canon statutory-construction statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs |
1. Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permi… |
| 22-262 |
Berkley V. Walker v. BOKF, National Association, dba Bank of Albuquerque, N.A. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12-cfr-7.4001 administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review national-bank-act overdraft-fees regulatory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
When an account holder at Respondent BOKF, N.A. ("the Bank") overdraws their account and the Bank covers the shortfall by extending its own money, the… |
| 21-1538 |
Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
agency-interpretation fair-labor-standards-act minimum-wage overtime-pay skidmore-deference skidmore-v-swift statutory-interpretation straight-time-wages |
1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act
allows an employee, who has been paid at least the
required minimum wage and overtime pay at a rate
that is at… |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-1215 |
Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the definition of "machinegun" found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition?
2. Whet… |
| 21-7070 |
Anderson Curtel Duke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-deference agency-interpretation attempt-crimes circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis stinson-v-united-states |
1. Should courts defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary when there is no ambiguity in the underlying text?
2. Has the Commission impermissibly exp… |
| 21-528 |
Willie H. Goffney, Jr., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation civil-procedure due-process judicial-review medicare medicare-claims regulatory-deference regulatory-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the regulatory deference test set forth in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997) and Kisor v. Wilkie, --- U.S. ---, 189 S.Ct. 2400 (2019), s… |
| 21-5714 |
Jayren Jakar Wynn v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference agency-interpretation circuit-precedent controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses kisor-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a circuit court may properly rely on circuit precedent predating Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), to hold, contrary to Kisor, that the… |
| 21-234 |
Kevin R. George v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error disability-claim plain-meaning pro-veteran-system statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits |
When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denies a veteran's claim for benefits in reliance on an agency interpretation that is later deemed invali… |
| 21-159 |
W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (21) |
administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Since this Court's 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), federal courts have deferred… |
| 20-1292 |
Parts Galore L.L.C., et al. v. Jacqueline Harrison |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation americans-with-disabilities-act auer-deference chevron-deference federal-courts judicial-review regulatory-guidance statutory-interpretation |
Congress in 2008 amended the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, expanding some key sections and admonishing courts to const… |
| 20-1178 |
Pacific Choice Seafood Company, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference commerce-secretary fishery-management quota-limits quota-shares statutory-interpretation |
The Ninth Circuit below applied deference under Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), to a statutory … |
| 19-1203 |
Children's Hospital Association of Texas, et al. v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation chevron-deference disproportionate-share-hospital medicaid medicaid-reimbursement regulatory-policy statutory-interpretation supplemental-payments |
Because of Medicaid's low reimbursement rates, hospitals with large Medicaid patient populations have a statutory right to supplemental "Disproportion… |
| 19-671 |
Daniel A. Grover v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation civil-procedure civil-service due-process federal-regulations regulatory-compliance statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether the deference standard regarding federal agencies interpretation of their own regulations must continue in the light of the admission by the O… |
| 19-435 |
SIH Partners LLLP, Explorer Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation chevron-deference circuit-split irs-regulation revenue-ruling statutory-interpretation tax-liability tax-regulation |
The Third Circuit, in conf lict with the D.C., Ninth, and Federal Circuits, deferred to an IRS regulation under step two of Chevron even though the ag… |
| 19-403 |
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes |
Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming, as the National Indian Gaming Commission,… |
| 19-295 |
Barbara Fawcett v. Citizens Bank, N.A. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-guidance agency-interpretation auer-deference fair-and-considered-judgment judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie regulatory-construction regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference statutory-construction |
Whether, in light of this Court's decisions in Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), and Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), the court of appeals… |
| 19-221 |
Michelle Valent v. Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Dismissed |
Amici (3) |
administrative-law administrative-sanctions agency-interpretation chenery-doctrine chevron-deference civil-rights disability-benefits due-process social-security social-security-act statutory-conflict statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court should overrule
Chevron.
2. Whether Chevron requires courts to defer to
an agency's resolution of a conflict between statutory
p… |
| 19-134 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund |
1. Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements, made … |
| 19-68 |
Unity HealthCare v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation auer-deference civil-procedure judicial-review kisor-v-wilkie medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation volume-decrease-adjustment |
This case presents the following question: whether federal courts must defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of its own regulations (commonly… |
| 18A1260 |
Unity HealthCare v. Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation auer-deference judicial-review medicare-regulations volume-decrease-adjustment |
Whether federal courts must defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of that agency's own regulations (commonly referred to as "Auer deference")… |
| 18-717 |
PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(a) Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes when the federal jud… |