17. Department of Justice · Minor
Intervene in matters where old consent decrees still bind parties
Printed page 558 17. Department of Justice
“Consider pursuing intervention in other matters where consent decrees or settlement agreements continue to bind parties years or decades after the fact.”
What has happened
- Not started
No intervention in a matter where a consent decree or settlement agreement binds parties other than the United States has been published. Every decree the department moved against in the window is one to which the United States is already a party — Louisiana, Louisville, Minneapolis, Seattle, Norfolk, New Orleans, Newark, the 44-year-old race-based decree — which is #1555's ask, not this one. Searched all 2,087 headquarters press releases for the window for intervention, statements of interest and amicus filings in third-party decree litigation.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
The Norfolk release is attached to show the pattern: the department terminates decrees it is party to and has not sought to intervene in anyone else’s.
- Action
- other
- Object
- consent decrees and settlement agreements binding third parties
- ID
- 1556