United States V. Mead Corp. - Issue

Issue

Before Mead, it was clear that the Chevron Doctrine applied to interpretations adopted in legislative rules and certain formal adjudications, but lower courts differed regarding whether it also applied to interpretative rules, policy statements, informal adjudications, advisory letters, amicus briefs. Finally, in 2001 the Supreme Court began to shed some light on the issue.

In Mead, it was questioned whether the court should defer to the U.S. Customs Services interpretation of the Customs Act, as manifested through the many classification decisions its regional offices made annually. The Court granted certiorari to determine the limits of Chevron deference.

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