Supreme Court Holds that Courts Must Defer to an Agency's Interpretation of its Own Statutory Authority

In City of Arlington v. Federal Communications Commission, __ U.S. ___, No. 11-1545 (May 20, 2013), the Supreme Court re-affirmed the Chevron standard for deferring to an agency interpretation of an ambiguous statute even where the agency interpretation pertains to whether the agency possesses authority to act in the first instance. 

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