Developing a Financially Sustainable Capital Program to Meet Consent Decree Requirements

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (13) ◽  
pp. 3416-3422
Author(s):  
Eric Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Consent Decree

A Ground-breaking New Wet Weather Consent Decree for East Bay Municipal Utility District and Its Satellite Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (12) ◽  
pp. 4152-4165
Author(s):  
Heidi G Oriol ◽  
Bennett K Horenstein ◽  
Jacqueline T Zipkin ◽  
Christopher A Dinsmore ◽  
Jonathan D Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Consent Decree ◽  
East Bay ◽  
Wet Weather

scholarly journals How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 15898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Watzinger ◽  
Thomas Fackler ◽  
Markus Nagler ◽  
Monika Schnitzer
Keyword(s):  
Antitrust Enforcement ◽  
Consent Decree

scholarly journals Interpretation of Consent Decrees and Microsoft v. United States I: Making Law in the Shadow of Negotiation

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd C. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Consent Decree ◽  
Public Forum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Ordering ◽  
Negotiated Settlements ◽  
Consent Decrees ◽  
The Law ◽  
Substantive Law

 People negotiate agreements "in the shadow of the law," whether in the private ordering of affairs such as drafting contracts or in the public forum of settling lawsuits.[1] A reverse phenomenon, however, has gone largely unnoticed: judges occasionally declare law in the shadow of negotiated settlements. In interpreting the terms of a consent decree[2] when the parties themselves cannot agree on what obligations such terms impose, the judge may determine that both the words and the parties' own intentions are so ambiguous that the words must be interpreted in light of the substantive law that gave rise to the plaintiffs' claim. This writer has previously contended that the meaning of an ambiguous term should be determined, in part, "by reference to the constitutional or statutory rights sought to be vindicated in the litigation." Even if the law is somewhat uncertain, part of the judge's interpretive effort should be to determine which interpretation "will best serve the policies of the relevant law."[3] It appears that the federal courts, at least, have adopted this position.[4]

Update on Fort Wayne's Consent Decree

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Wirtz ◽  
Justin Brugger
Keyword(s):  
Consent Decree

The Aspira Consent Decree: A Thirtieth-Anniversary Retrospective of Bilingual Education in New York City

2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS REYES
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
York City ◽  
Latino Students ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Consent Decree ◽  
Bilingual Instruction ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary

In this article, Luis O. Reyes provides a retrospective of the historic 1974 Aspira Consent Decree between the New York City Board of Education and Aspira of New York, which established bilingual instruction as a legally enforceable federal entitlement for New York City's non-English-speaking Puerto Rican and Latino students. Reyes analyzes the fate of the Aspira Consent Decree over the last thirty years. He discusses the demographic and sociopolitical changes between 1974 and the present, the pedagogical and political struggles associated with the consent decree over the years, the lessons learned, and the emerging trends and prospects for bilingual education in New York City's public school system, which is now under direct mayoral control.

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