A divorce decree is an official legal document that dissolves your marriage. It is also called a divorce judgment, and it is issued by the court after successful divorce proceedings.

Backed by the legal firepower of the federal government, consent decrees emerged in response to police departments with a history and culture of disregarding civil rights, and local political ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that the Justice Department is rescinding a Trump-era memo that limited the use of consent decrees that hold police departments accused of ...

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Jeff Sessions sounded skeptical of consent decrees, the legal reform agreements that the Justice Department had negotiated with troubled police forces. But DOJ ...

Consent decrees have been used in other cities, like Baltimore, Cleveland and New Orleans and have proven effective. In New Orleans, residents' approval rating of the police department grew from ...

Judge clears Justice Department to terminate the 71-year-old consent decrees that have restricted major studio control over the exhibition process. Skip to main content Open Mega Menu ...

The DOJ said that it will review consent decrees which for almost 70 years have regulated how movie studios distribute films to exhibitors. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

The Decrees stem from a late 1930s DOJ enforcement action where the DOJ alleged that the five major film studios of that time—Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Brothers Pictures ...

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