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Alabama v. Georgia

Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on June 25, 2012.

Docket No.11-1006
Op. Below11th Cir.

Issue

Whether, under step one of this Court"s Chevron analysis, in determining whether Congress has "directly spoken to the precise question at issue" " thereby foreclosing an agency"s discretion to interpret a statute it administers " a court may base its conclusion on what it considers to be the best construction of ambiguous language.

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