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A federal judge on Thursday made final a consent decree in which the Chesterfield County schools admitted to violating the separation of church and state.
As an alternative to formal enforcement, the company and the F.C.C. could enter into a consent decree, in which the company would neither admit nor deny the charges, but would agree to make a voluntary payment to settle the issue.
In 1977, a federal judge approved a consent decree in which the New York City Housing Authority agreed to bolster the low number of Hispanic families living in public housing projects.
Since the removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, on July 3rd, the Obama Administration has purposefully declined to state whether this event was "a coup d'état or decree in which the military plays a decisive role," because an affirmative answer would legally require the suspension of aid.
The New York Legal Aid Society filed a legal challenge to the new policy in 1997, saying it would violate the Fair Housing Act and a 1992 consent decree in which the city acknowledged discrimination against nonwhite applicants for apartments at 31 housing projects and agreed to take steps to remedy that discrimination.
The turning point in the cleanup, the report said, was the 1989 consent decree in which the union agreed to allow intensive government supervision to settle a racketeering lawsuit that charged Teamster leaders with having made a "devil's pact" with organized crime.
Attorney General Eric Holder has spoken out from time to time against police violence and has signed on to several high profile consent decrees in which the feds monitor the policies, procedures and conduct of police agencies on the use of excessive force.
The numbers were made public in a mandatory report to the United States Department of Justice under a consent decree last year in which the state agreed to curtail racial profiling by state troopers with improved training and record keeping.
The lawyers said the conditions violated a consent decree from 1981, in which the city agreed to provide clean and safe shelter, including beds and showers, to homeless men and women who sought it.
The lawsuit was resolved with the signing of a consent decree last month in which the city promised to build 700 units of public housing, including those in North Town Village, in an area bounded by North Avenue, Wells Street, Chicago Avenue and the Chicago River in exchange for the right to demolish three more high-rises.
They replied by pointing to a little-noticed ministerial decree from August 2005 in which the cabinet had given Hezbollah the right not only to liberate any Lebanese lands still occupied by Israel but also to free Lebanese prisoners still detained in Israel in effect a blank check to wage war.
