Talk:Chevron deference

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Formerly this redirect linked to the subsection of the Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. article titled “Importance”.

This section is in the middle of the article and will not make sense to someone to someone without the context of the preceding material. It currently begins:


 * Chevron is probably the most frequently cited case in American administrative law, but some scholars suggest that the decision has had little impact on the Supreme Court's jurisprudence and merely clarified the Court's existing approach.

This is unhelpful for someone who wants to know what Chevron deference is, because it doesn't say what Chevron deference is, and it is unclear that it is even relevant, because it doesn't actually mention Chevron deference.

In contrast, the lead paragraph of the article does introduce Chevron deference:


 * Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court set forth the legal test for determining whether to grant deference to a government agency's interpretation of a statute which it administers. The decision articulated a doctrine now known as "Chevron deference". The doctrine consists of a two-part test applied by the court, when appropriate, that is highly deferential to government agencies: "whether the agency's answer is based on a permissible construction [emphasis added] of the statute", so long as Congress has not spoken directly to the precise issue at question.

This by itself is useful information for someone who wants to understand Chevron deference. So I changed the redirect to point to the top of the article. —Mark Dominus (talk) 18:26, 1 May 2023 (UTC)