guidelines-commentary

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-310	Cory Ratzloff v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2023-09-26	Denied	Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation guidelines-commentary judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent united-states-sentencing-commission	Whether the administrative law principles articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on the…
22-7552	Jeffrey Christopher Anders v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2023-05-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference-to-agency-interpretation genuine-ambiguity guidelines-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines	Whether courts may defer to guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous
20-579	Zimmian Tabb v. United States	Second Circuit	2020-11-02	Denied	Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)	administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation	Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous