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...Maryland law professor, used the law, which she called "the greatest piece of social legislation ever written," to file a federal lawsuit in 1984 on behalf of a group of disabled children denied timely delivery of educational services. The lawsuit, known locally as "Vaughn G.," resulted in a 1988 consent decree in which the school system agreed to follow a strict timetable for evaluating and educating the children...
...film falters when it attempts to justify the more disreputable behavior among the Branch Davidians. Waco contains almost too much sympathy for the Branch Davidians. When dealing with the sexual abuse of children that may have occurred at the compound, the documentary adopts a specious argument based on parental consent, then places blame on the ATF for using this abuse--an area for which the agency has no jurisdiction--as a basis for involvement. The film, like the ATF itself, shifts blame through technicalities...
Charging Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Janet Reno asks that the company be held in contempt and fined $1 Million a day (TIME Daily...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...
...settle for a confident (yet curiously error-riddled) press release on the company's website: "We are operating in a completely appropriate and lawful mannerare operating in a completely lawful manner," it quoted William H. Neukom, Microsoft's Senior Vice President for Law and Corporate Affairs, as saying. "The consent decree specifically explicitly states that allows Microsoft to may integrate new features into the operating system that it licenses to PC manufacturers without violating the decree...