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Statutory interpretation

Administrative Law

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

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No Two-Stepping In The Laboratories: State Deference Standards And Their Implications For Improving Chevron Doctrine, Michael Pappas Jan 2008

No Two-Stepping In The Laboratories: State Deference Standards And Their Implications For Improving Chevron Doctrine, Michael Pappas

Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the deference standards that the various states apply to agency statutory interpretation and analyzes the implications for the federal Chevron doctrine. First, the article surveys state standards for reviewing agencies' statutory interpretation, finding that none of the state standards exactly follows the federal Chevron test but that state standards fall into one of four categories ranging from "strong deference" to "de novo with deference discouraged." The article then examines four particular state standards in depth, discovering that states tend to use the same methods, tools, and processes for statutory interpretation despite the different announced degrees of deference. …


Judicial Deference To Administrative Agencies And Its Limits, Graham G. Martin, David A. Super Jan 2007

Judicial Deference To Administrative Agencies And Its Limits, Graham G. Martin, David A. Super

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Administrative Practice As A Guide To Judicial Interpretation Of Statutes - Bouse V. Hutzler Jan 1942

Administrative Practice As A Guide To Judicial Interpretation Of Statutes - Bouse V. Hutzler

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.