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On the recordNovember 8, 2017
Citizen lawsuits were intended to put citizens in place of the regulators if the regulators failed to do their jobs.
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Dan Newhouse
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Describes the original intent of citizen lawsuits regarding regulatory failures.

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