CHICAGO — Chicago Police Department brass accused Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration of deliberately slowing down ...

Consent decree prevents prosecution of doctors and Planned Parenthood for advising patients about legal abortion services ...

The Board will consider a $100M sewer bond, engineering pay raises, and environmental, utility, and grant initiatives at its ...

In Warren, members of the United Auto Workers union approved charges against President Shawn Fain, following an investigation ...

Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador has agreed to a consent decree that prevents the state from prosecuting healthcare ...

Notwithstanding the consent decree, it's an open question whether the US Supreme Court would go along with voiding the ...

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department ...

A consent decree is a legal negotiation between the Department of Justice and the police department of the city in which it's being instituted.

A consent decree could last years or decades, but it is ultimately up to the judge to decide when the terms of the agreement are completed. The history of consent decrees.

The consent decree went into place in 2012, and by 2022, Seattle's violent crime rate was up 37%. Still, most smaller cities and some larger ones saw decreases in violent crime while under DOJ ...

Key background on the DOJ report and consent decree discussions. The 90-page DOJ report that led to the consent decree was released in March 2023 found evidence LMPD had violated the civil rights ...