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'Highly Irregular': Legal Experts Weigh in on Leaked Snake River Dam Package

There's nothing in the secret commitments the U.S. government made to plaintiffs in the case involving management of the four lower Snake River dams that anybody could sue over, according to a lawyer with experience in litigating similar disputes. "It sort of shows what the agencies are thinking, but there's no cause of action here," Karen Budd-Falen, an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyo., told the Capital Press. A litigant can only sue the federal government over a "final agency action." "A draft is not a final," she said.

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