No. 24-604

Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2024-12-03
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction
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Latest Conference: 2025-04-04
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intended loss under 2B1.1 Application Note 3 of the Sentencing Guidelines

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, required the United States Sentencing Commission’s commentary on the Sentencing Guidelines to be treated like “an agency’s interpretation of its own legislative rules,” and afforded “controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with” the Guidelines themselves. Jd. (quoting Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410, 414 (1945)). In Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), this Court circumscribed the deference courts must give to agencies’ interpretations of their own legislative rules, and made clear that courts may extend Auer or Seminole Rock deference only where the law remains “genuinely ambiguous” after the court has “exhausted all the traditional tools of construction.” Id. at 2415 (quotation marks omitted). The Question Presented is: Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Azsor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission’s commentary on intended loss under 2B1.1 Application Note 3 of the Sentencing Guidelines.

Docket Entries

2025-04-07
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/4/2025.
2025-03-18
Reply of Xiaoqing Zheng submitted.
2025-03-18
2025-03-04
Brief of United States in opposition submitted.
2025-03-04
Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2025-01-28
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 4, 2025.
2025-01-27
Motion of United States for an extension of time submitted.
2025-01-27
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 3, 2025 to March 4, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-12-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 3, 2025.
2024-12-09
Motion of United States for an extension of time submitted.
2024-12-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 2, 2025 to February 3, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-11-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 2, 2025)

Attorneys

United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Xiaoqing Zheng
Bradley Lamar HenryBlank Rome, Petitioner