Legal Opinion
Doe v. Pataki
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 8, 2007No. Docket Nos. 06-2126-cv(L), 06-3709-cv(CON)PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a novel issue arising in the context of interpreting a court-approved stipulation of settlement between private and governmental parties that is equivalent to a consent decree: do terms of the stipulation that recite provisions of state statutes in force at the time of the stipulation bind the governmental defendants to continue those provisions into the future notwithstanding later changes by a state legislature? This issue arises on an appeal by various New York State officials (collectively “the State”) from two orders of the United States…
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