Legal Opinion
King v. Walters
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 1999No. 98-2086PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
According to the plaintiffs, this case presents the question whether the State of Illinois can be held to its word to a federal district court, when the state sends an agency official to the court in response to an order to present a person with authority to settle a case and indicates the official is such a person; the state defendants see it as a case about the propriety of imposing upon the state a consent decree to which it never truly consented. At bottom, the litigation concerns the child custody enforcement program Illinois has established under Title IV-D…
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