FTC counsel: state supervision of regulatory board is “inadequate”

Hettie O'Brien

23 February 2018

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New procedures to oversee a Louisiana regulatory board are “inadequate”, Federal Trade Commission lawyers have told the commissioners, despite the board’s claims that the case is a matter of state sovereignty.

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