Resident Councils of Washington v. Leavitt

MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:

As we are often called to do, we address a federal agency’s interpretation of words chosen by Congress and the sometimes tricky shoals of Chevron deference. Resident Councils of Washington, an organization consisting primarily of nursing and boarding home residents and their families, and the Washington State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, representing Washington’s long-term care facility residents (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), appeal the adverse grant of summary judgment in their challenge to the Secretary of Health and Human Services’s (“Secretary” or…