by Linda Goldstein , Daniel Kaufman , Amy Ralph Mudge and Randal M. Shaheen
Watchdogs claim a win, but are they being set up for a wait? Again?
Anticipation
When last we left the doughty heroes of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, they had summoned up the gumption to sue the Treasury Department and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau under the Administrative Procedure Act, which, according to their complaint, "requires that an agency 'shall ... conclude a matter presented to it' 'within a reasonable time,' and the reviewing court 'shall ... compel agency action ... unreasonably delayed.'"
The delay in this case was a doozy.
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