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settlement agreements are often in the public's best interest because [the Service] has no effective legal defense to most deadline cases, and because settlement agreements facilitate issue resolution as a more expeditious and less costly alternative to litigation.

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Hastings discusses the effectiveness of settlement agreements in implementing the ESA.

12/11/2013

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