The principle in which a court defers to an administrative agency's (for
example, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)) prior answer or
interpretation of a given statute, rather than having the court apply its own
potentially different interpretation and ruling. One of the requirements in
order for Chevron deference to apply is that the agency being deferred to is
interpreting its own statute or, in other words, a statute that the agency
itself is responsible for administering. The term was coined after Chevron
U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 104
S. Ct. 2778, 81 L. Ed. 2d 694, 1984 U.S. LEXIS 118, 52 U.S.L.W. 4845, 14 ELR
20507, 21 ERC (BNA) 1049 (U.S. 1984).