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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 17 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Frew Ex Rel. Frew v. Hawkins.

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1 Frew Ex Rel. Frew v. Hawkins Anchor
scotus · 2004
green “federal courts are not reduced to approving consent decrees and hoping for compliance. once entered, a consent decree may be enforced.” 10
2 Johnson v. Robinson
ca4 · 1993
green “a federal district court may not use its power of enforcing consent decrees to enlarge or diminish the duties on which the parties have agreed and which the court has approved.” 4
3 David C. Ex Rel. Brown v. Leavitt
ca10 · 2001
green “it would defy logic for appellees to agree to include the four-year termination provision in the agreement if they actually foresaw that utah would not be in substantial compliance with the terms of the agreement at the end of the four-year period.” 3

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