"citizen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the United States, a citizen suit is a lawsuit by a private citizen to enforce a statute.
- This third type of citizen suit is analogous to the common law tort of public nuisance.
- Environmental laws that allow citizen suits include:
- Indeed, the New York bill requires advance notice of suit to the state government, which may bring an enforcement action and pre-empt the citizen suit.
- In dozens of cases in Federal court, citizen suits brought a polluter into compliance.
- Opponents also imply that the motivation behind citizen suits is to earn a "nice living" for lawyers.
- It called for limiting the instances in which citizen suits would be allowed.
- A major obstacle to most citizen suits has been lack of standing.
- These "citizen suit" provisions remove environmental enforcement from the exclusive control of federal agencies, and have long been opposed by businesses and conservative interest groups.
- People will finally know the status of polluters and will have the information they need to bring citizen suits.
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