No. 19-5597

Randall B. Lord v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-08-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is it a plain error for the District Court to defer to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a statute?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Is it a plain error for the District Court to ; : regulatory deference to an agency's regulation : before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a statute? II. Does buying cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) from an . exchange and selling it to customers at a profit ‘meet the definition of a money transmitter under 18 U.S.C. §1960? i ‘

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-23
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-06-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 16, 2019)

Attorneys

Randall Lord
Randall B. Lord — Petitioner
Randall B. Lord — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent