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Second Circuit Discusses Consent Decrees
The court recites boilerplate about consent judgments: they are judicial orders and contracts, to be read "within [their] four corners"; a court can't replace consent decree terms with its own, even if that would help effectuate the decree's goals; courts' equitable power exists only to ensure compliance with the decrees' ...
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