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Ali Mif Bey v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 25-4132 · judgment January 27, 2026
Question presented
Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. 558 (2019), held that a court may defer to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation only if, after exhausting all traditional tools of construction, the regulation remains "genuinely ambiguous." The circuits are divided on the methodology for making that threshold determination. The question presented is: Whether a court of appeals correctly applies Kisor when it finds a term "genuinely ambiguous" based on a multiplicity of dictionary definitions alone, or by invoking the regulation's purpose to introduce rather than resolve ambiguity. -i-
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Joseph Stephen Camden
Office of the Federal Public Defender
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Aug 13 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jul 24 2026Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
- Jun 26 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including July 24, 2026.
- Jun 25 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 1, 2026 to July 24, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 29 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 1, 2026.
- May 28 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 1, 2026 to July 1, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Apr 27 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 1, 2026)