Suharto decreed a quick and quiet funeral.
According to Wood, the case could also end with a consent decree — a kind of settlement in which the federal government agrees to take action rather than go through with a trial.
The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public," and it arose specifically in relation to how third-party apps were able to use and access this data.
The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public," and it arose specifically in relation to how third-party apps were able to use and access this data.
The U.S. Department of Justice has conducted dozens of investigations resulting in court-enforced consent decrees or settlement agreements requiring reforms of law enforcement departments.
A new presidential decree forbids Gazprom from reaching a settlement without getting the Kremlin's approval.
After the scathing federal report came out in January, Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, signed an "agreement in principle" to negotiate a consent decree, or a legal settlement between a city and the feds overseen by a federal judge.
Spreads collapsed literally overnight, and the Justice Department and class action lawyers extracted a consent decree and a $1 billion settlement a few years later.
It now seems that Google's senior management team has decided that consent decrees, settlement agreements, legal commitments, and promises to regulators are no more binding on the firm's future behavior than social norms, legal codes, and promises to their users.
Under Mr. Bloomberg and Michael A. Cardozo, the corporation counsel, the city has generally refused to enter into consent decrees — lawsuit settlements overseen by the courts.
