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Judicial deference instructs federal courts to defer to administrative agencies' interpretations of ambiguous statutes or regulations. State-level approaches to judicial deference vary significantly. State courts are not obliged to defer to state-level administrative agencies or adopt federal deference doctrines. Thirty-six states, however, have implemented forms of judicial deference to state administrative agencies similar to the federal deference doctrines.[1] Eleven of these states and the District of Columbia have specifically adopted Chevron deference.[2]
See also
- State responses to judicial deference
- Chevron deference (doctrine)
- Deference (administrative state)
- Auer v. Robbins
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
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