consent decree

an agreement, approved by the court, pursuant to which the defendant ceases activities alleged by the government to be illegal and the government's action is dropped, especially in antitrust and other regulatory matters.
an agreement made in court by the parties to settle a suit in equity.

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First recorded in 1920–25

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, though, said this week that his city would still "comply with every sentence, of every paragraph, of the 169-page consent decree that we signed this year".

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“We definitely want to see them have a consent decree. I don’t know if that’s going to be possible,” said Gage.

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Minneapolis in January approved a consent decree with the federal government in the final days of the Biden administration to overhaul its training and use-of-force policies under court supervision.

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Department of Justice’s consent decree, which mandated reforms to addressed basic problems of accountability that stretched back decades.

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Now, the Bureau of Prisons has agreed to enter a consent decree to protect the rights of nearly 500 class members who remain incarcerated in more than a dozen federal prisons.

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consentaneous consentience

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consent decree

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