Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Res. Def. Council

Holding that courts "must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress"

Auer v. Robbins

Holding that a federal agency's interpretation of a regulation is controlling where it is not "plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation"

Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner

Holding that plaintiffs subject to a regulation had standing to challenge it even though the Attorney General had yet to "authorize criminal and seizure actions for violations of the statute"

United Savings Assn. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest

Holding that § 506(b) “deni [es] ... postpetition interest to undersecured creditors,” and recognizing “an apparent anomaly” that when a debtor proves solvent, 11 U.S.C. § 726 provides for post-petition interest on unsecured claims “but not on the secured portion of undersecured creditors' claims,” but concluding that these particular “inequitable effects ... are entirely avoidable, since an undersecured creditor is entitled to ‘surrender or waive his security and prove his entire claim as an unsecured one’ ”

Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc.

Holding that Chevron deference is due only to a " reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency"

Russello v. United States

Holding that where "Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act," courts presume that "Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion"

Smith v. City of Jackson

Holding that "when Congress uses the same language in two statutes having similar purposes, particularly when one is enacted shortly after the other, it is appropriate to presume that Congress intended that text to have the same meaning in both statutes."

Mich. v. Bay Mills Indian Cmty.

Holding that tribal immunity extends to "suits arising from a tribe’s commercial activities, even when they take place off Indian lands"

Reno v. Catholic Social Services, Inc.

Holding that claims of immigrants who never applied for amnesty, challenging alleged mistakes made in administration of amnesty provision, were not ripe

Nevada v. Hicks

Holding that a tribal court lacked jurisdiction over claims asserted against state officials who executed a search warrant on tribal land to search for evidence of an off-reservation crime

Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

Section 1332 - Diversity of citizenship; amount in controversy; costs

Holding district court has jurisdiction over action between diverse citizens "where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75,000"

Section 551 - Definitions

Adopting the definition set out in the APA

Section 704 - Actions reviewable

Granting judicial review over " final agency action"

Section 1151 - Indian country defined

Defining "Indian country" even more broadly

Section 2342 - Unlawful acts

Record-keeping requirements for any single transaction of over 10,000 cigarettes

Section 2341 - Definitions

Requiring "contraband cigarettes" to also be in the possession of non-exempt persons

Section 375 - Definitions

Requiring persons shipping or delivering cigarettes to a state that taxes the sale or use of cigarettes to comply with various reporting requirements identifying to the state the monthly cigarette shipments and the consumers who purchased them

Section 2346 - Enforcement and regulations

Permitting civil actions to enforce the CCTA to be brought by " State, through its attorney general, a local government, through its chief law enforcement officer (or a designee thereof), or any person who holds a permit under chapter 52 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 . . ."

Section 2344 - Penalties

Section 646.143 - Meaning of terms

Section 646.142 - Territorial extent