JUDGE QUESTIONS INDUSTRY ABILITY TO LEGALLY CHALLENGE DATA LAW

Litigation challenging the data that agencies use in making decisions appears to have suffered a setback as a federal judge questioned whether industry groups in a key case have standing to sue and suggested that the data quality law does not allow courts to review the information. "I'm having trouble seeing [statutory] language that provides for judicial review" of data quality decisions, U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee said during Sept. 3 oral arguments in a case that industry sources...