Officers for Justice v. Civil Service Commission

ORDER

PECKHAM, Chief Judge.

This court is now asked to approve a settlement agreement reached by all parties in this case. The proposal represents the culmination of almost six years of litigation that included several preliminary injunctions and orders, a settlement tentatively agreed to that eventually collapsed, and two weeks of actual trial before a recess that led to weeks of hard bargaining by all the parties that produced this final agreement. As we have 'stated on numerous previous occasions, this suit involves issues of extraordinary sensitivity and importance — to the parties who have…