Later, Jamall stopped in front of an old court exhibit in the longstanding litigation to enforce the city's obligation to provide shelter.
"I think that the E.P.A. has missed the boat on the cancer assessment completely, because they did not have available important information about its links to cancer," said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist at the council, an advocacy group that specializes in litigation to enforce environmental laws.
The judgment is part of litigation by Alcatel to enforce claims related to Bell Labs patents.
"Two very well-known brands have recently undertaken litigation to try to enforce design copyright which, though nobody knows for sure, may have come from security breaches leading to features being cloned.
Judge Brieant presided over the earlier litigation and has "jurisdiction to enforce compliance" with the settlement terms, said the employees' lawyer, Robert S. Weininger.
That proposal would give shareholders "the voting rights they sought to enforce in the litigation," the press release said.
Guided by the tone set at the top -- from Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to Gale A. Norton, the Interior secretary, and Christie Whitman, the E.P.A. administrator -- these nominees will help determine what policies to advocate, what regulations to enforce and what litigation to pursue.
In 1996, she filed pioneering litigation against the State Maryland for failure to enforce the "Motor Voter" law and represented the NAACP and African-American Floridians disenfranchised in 2000.
There, she engaged in litigation and negotiations in several states to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act, which requires public assistance agencies to provide voter registration services to their clients.
This legislation authorized the Attorney General to sue for injunctive relief on behalf of persons whose Fifteenth Amendment rights were deprived, created the Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice to enforce civil rights through litigation, and created the Commission on Civil Rights to investigate voting rights deprivations.
The resolution, which Boehner is likely to bring to the House floor this month, would authorize the House General Counsel to initiate litigation against Obama and "compel" the president to enforce the law.
