Consent decree or no, Microsoft has once again managed to leverage its operating system dominance to its advantage.
And a DOJ court-enforced consent decree on the Google ITA transaction to prohibit and police against certain Google behavior.
The consent decree is the quickest route to a solution and would be enforced by the courts, she said.
One example includes the consent decree that the Division has obtained to protect Chinese-speaking voters in Alameda County, California.
The group signed a consent decree with King County (Seattle), requiring it to beef up its oversight or face criminal prosecution.
Officials at Penn State, which isn't involved in either legal action, signed a consent decree last summer agreeing to the penalties.
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But imagine that Pennsylvania actually litigates to a successful conclusion and has the consent decree between Penn State and the NCAA overturned.
The court will enter a consent decree once the settlement is approved.
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The consent decree that came out of that case was renegotiated in the mid-Eighties, and companies like Viacom have owned both theaters and studios.
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Under a proposed consent decree filed in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, the company would scrap that option in favor of onboard storage.
That is why the department is determined to stick to the narrow issue of whether or not Microsoft has breached the 1995 consent decree.
"The FTC is focused on a 2009 help-center page published more than two years before our consent decree, " a Google spokesman said in a statement.
If a consent decree is reached with the government, the radio stations will also agree to closer scrutiny of their dealings with record companies in the future.
There was no formal ruling on the issues because the two sides came to an agreement that was entered as a consent decree to close the case.
The Commission vote to authorize the staff to refer the complaint to the Department of Justice, and to approve the proposed consent decree, was 4-1 with Commissioner J.
The ruling deals with a relatively narrow issue: Microsoft's alleged violation of a 1995 consent decree preventing the company from tying applications software to the licensing of Windows.
The latest fine is possible because Google signed a separate settlement, called a consent decree, with the FTC in October, promising not to misrepresent its privacy practices to consumers.
In his dissenting statement, Commissioner Rosch stated that it arguably cannot be concluded that the consent decree is in the public interest if it contains a denial of liability.
After speaking with FDA manufacturing and quality control consultants, and senior execs from other generic injectable makers, Malhotra believes the Hospira violations meet FDA criteria for entering a consent decree.
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"This consent decree offers the fastest and most certain path available to EPA to stop the discharge of coal ash from the Badger into Lake Michigan, " said Susan Hedman, EPA regional administrator.
The consent decree that came out of that case was renegotiated in the mid-Eighties, and companies like Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ) have owned both theaters and studios.
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The consent decree is a case in point.
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This case was filed with the invaluable assistance of the DOJ, which filed the complaint and proposed consent decree on behalf of the Commission in U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California in San Jose August 8, 2012.
In one of its most sensitive police "pattern or practice" investigations to date, the Justice Department is now working to get Los Angeles city officials to sign a consent decree authorizing a third party to monitor the city's Police Department and imposing other safeguards.
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For example, last spring, we reached a consent decree with the Hertford County, North Carolina, Public Health Authority to resolve a claim that the Health Authority rescinded an offer of employment and refused to hire a woman for a Health Educator Specialist position after learning she was pregnant.
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