Chevron Patterns in the Circuit Courts

Authors

Christina L. Boyd, Washington University School of LawFollow
Kent Barnett, Ohio State University Moritz College of LawFollow
Christopher J. Walker, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

English (en)

Publication Date

2018

Publication Title

Administrative & Regulatory Law News

Abstract

Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. NRDC required courts to defer to federal agencies reasonable interpretation of ambiguous statutes that are administered through the agency. However, recently this “Chevron deference” has been called into question by the judiciary, the legal academy, and Congress. In this essay we briefly describe and highlight three of the most noteworthy findings from our empirical study of over 1,300 decisions of agency statutory interpretation (based on articles published in Chevron in the Circuit Courts, 116 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (2017) (Barnett and Walker); Chevron Step Two’s Domain, 93 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1441 (2018) (Barnett and Walker); The Politics of Selecting Chevron Deference, 15 J. Empirical L. Stud. 597 (2018) (Barnett, Boyd, and Walker); and Administrative Law’s Political Dynamics, 71 Vand. L. Rev. __ (2018) (Barnett, Boyd, and Walker).

Keywords

Administrative Law, Chevron, Deference, Statutory Interpretation, Ideological Preferences, Decisionmaking, Standard of Review

Publication Citation

Christina L. Boyd, Kent Barnett & Christopher J. Walker, Chevron Patterns in the Circuit Courts, 43 Admin. & Reg. L. News 4 (2018)

Repository Citation

Boyd, Christina L.; Barnett, Kent; and Walker, Christopher J., "Chevron Patterns in the Circuit Courts" (2018). Scholarship@WashULaw. 794.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/794