Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Administrative authorities to which powers have been conferred by Congress, have a final margin of discretion with regard to the competences conferred on them if the corresponding provision of law and inaccurate interpretation of the authority is appropriate or permissible.

The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case against Chevron USA Natural Resources Defense Council ( Chevron USA, Incorporated versus Natural Resources Defense Council, Incorporated, et al. ) Of 25 June 1984, one of the basic and most cited decisions of the U.S. American administrative law. In it, the Court made it clear the conditions under which an administrative authority a margin of discretion with respect to an applied by their law is that the courts have to respect that ( doctrine of "administrative deference ").

Whether an authority such leeway must be conceded, is therefore a two-step test to determine ( the so-called " Chevron two-step " ):

Comparison with German law

The "administrative deference " is most comparable to the German administrative law with the discretion, but not the same as this. Also indeterminate legal concepts are fully verifiable by German administrative courts generally.