Although he dismantled some of the centralized state machinery that Joseph had set up in the Habsburg domains, he kept in force Joseph's decrees that emancipated the peasantry and granted increased religious liberty to non-Catholics.
Here's what did matter: for the next decade – the time in which a "consent decree" was in force – Microsoft was constantly looking over its shoulder.
Table 1 displays the main elements of LEA decree and of the other benefit-defining laws and decrees currently in force in Italy.
"Those decrees remain in force until and if they are changed," Sessions said, adding that consent decrees are "not necessarily a bad thing" but that "there's concern that good police officers and good departments" shoulder responsibility for the actions of a few bad apples.
Anti-Komplex said mayors in the former Sudetenland inundated the group with calls after those comments, expressing their fears that constituents would have to surrender their homes to the former owners – even though the Beneš decrees remain in force.
Under the temporary constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), cabinet decisions are law, and decrees already in force, such as those that laid down a new press law or set up the independent regulator of state media and mobile phones, can be scrapped by cabinet order.Mr Allawi's "caretaker" powers are supposed to expire after elections for a National Assembly in January 2005.
Nehmer v. Department of Veterans Affairs, which was resolved with a consent decree in 1991, forced the VA to address its responsibilities to veterans exposed to Agent Orange.
In contrast, under the government's proposal, the decree would remain in force for ten years (assuming the Court rejects the government's breakup proposal).
Judge Kollar-Kotelly will have continuing jurisdiction over compliance with the consent decree, whose provisions remain in force for five years.
A new government decree in France is forcing manufacturers to tell consumers how long their appliances will last.
