In many of the desegregation cases of the 1970s, for example, special masters were assigned to oversee the development and implementation of court-ordered busing plans.
An article on Wednesday about a proposal from an M.I.T. doctoral student to remake the student assignment system used by Boston's schools misstated the reason for the implementation of court-ordered busing in the city in the 1970s.
The Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board's abrupt decision on Nov. 21 simply to abandon its statutory responsibility, purportedly due to the burden of complying with this court's ruling, frustrates the implementation of this court's mandate and defies the principles of Florida law that place the expression of the true will of the electorate ahead of concerns about administrative inconvenience.
But, as Achmat said in his Sir John Foster memorial lecture at University College London last week, the implementation of the court's decision is not going well.
"As a court of law," he wrote, "ours is neither to devise ways in which to circumvent the opinions of the Supreme Court nor to indulge delay in the full implementation of the court's opinions".
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued two orders stopping implementation of lower court injunctions that had temporarily blocked implementation of President Donald Trump's third travel ban order, which permanently bans entry into the United States by most citizens of six Muslim-majority nations, as well as imposing mostly insignificant restrictions on citizens of North Korea and Venezuela.
(a) The power conferred by the Act extends, under appropriate circumstances, to persons who (though not parties to the original action or engaged in wrongdoing) are in a position to frustrate the implementation of a court order or the proper administration of justice.
In November 2010, the Council of Europe finally demanded that the UK "put an end to the practice of delaying full implementation of Strasbourg Court judgements".
