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Dan Newhouse: “Citizen lawsuits were intended to put citizens in place of the regulators if the regulators failed to do their jobs.”

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

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Describes the original intent of citizen lawsuits regarding regulatory failures.

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