"Russell Slade has a settled squad.
A consent decree settled a lawsuit filed by the federal government last March after Cicero officials sought to hold a referendum on whether to lengthen the town's residency requirement for candidates.
A consent decree settled a 2008 lawsuit by the Sierra Club, Florida Wildlife Federation and others against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to get the E.P.A. to set numeric standards for runoff like fertilizers and animal waste.
Military expenditure: As the Budget would be settled by decree, and as the figures would not need to be made public, there would be no extra-Governmental control of public finances, and the Government would be free to increase military and naval expenditure without the least publicity.
The decree settled a federal discrimination lawsuit filed in 1978 by the society, which charged the fire departments in Westchester's four largest towns — Mount Vernon, White Plains, New Rochelle and Yonkers — with discriminating against blacks in hiring, promotion and testing procedures.
The Teamsters agreed to the supervision in a consent decree that settled a federal racketeering lawsuit that asserted that the union was dominated by organized crime.
Mr. Bilello's immediate predecessor, Michael Forde, is serving an 11-year term in federal prison for taking bribes; Frederick W. Devine was convicted in 1998 of embezzlement; Paschal McGuinness was acquitted of bribery but resigned in 1994 as part of a consent decree that settled a federal civil racketeering case and placed the union under court oversight.
In the case at bar the controversy between the parties to the suit was settled by final decree, and from that decree, so far as appears, no appeal was taken.
A consent decree settling the case was filed yesterday in federal court in Washington along with a Justice Department suit challenging Miller's acquisitions of the Vulcan Equipment Company in 1998 and Chevron Inc. in 1997.
It is well settled that the decree of the court which has acquired jurisdiction of an estate and settled an account cannot be collaterally attacked (Jennison v. Hapgood, 7 Pick. 1, 7, 19 Am. Dec. 258).
