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A Look At Activist State Attorneys General – ‘Regulation Through Litigation’

Last Updated on Monday, 10 December 2007 10:17 Written by rslcpol Monday, 10 December 2007 10:17

They say Bill Clinton was one of the first:

In his high-profile pursuit of questionable business practices in the student loan industry, New York’s Andrew Cuomo is following the model of the activist, consumer-oriented state attorney general. Contrary to popular belief, this role was not invented by his predecessor Eliot Spitzer, now New York governor.

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Others view it as the liberal reaction to the conservatism of Ronald Reagan. State AGs reconfigured their historic caretaker role into using litigation to change the status quo — an approach called “regulation through litigation.”

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