Francine Frensky. Francine Alice Frensky is the daughter of Oliver and Laverne Frensky, and the sister of Catherine Frensky. She is an athletic girl in Mr. Ratburn's third grade class at Lakewood Elementary School.
The AAO and the BIA are not Federal courts, but their decisions are subject to judicial review in the Federal courts. Federal courts give greater deference to precedent decisions as well as to unpublished decisions in which the same legal reasoning of a precedent decision was followed.
Happily, the Supreme Court has been willing to cut back a bit on Chevron deference in recent years. The Christenson-Mead doctrine has held that the agencies are normally entitled to Chevron deference when exercising informal rulemaking and formal adjudication, but not when exercising many types of agency action. Unfortunately, this doctrine has introduced significant uncertainty into the law.