AJ 025 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Consent Decree, Special Master, Flypaper

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: Johnson

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6-7: congressional requirement for curb cuts - philadelphia sued, budget managed by controlling group again: ada: all buildings open to public be made accessible (aspirational reform, pg. 8 - compliance vs. how to comply: when courts dictate how to comply with the law, they assume the. 5 responsibility of elected officials: judges should be able to compel spending on a variety of issues, neither power of the sword nor the purse, pg. Party-initiated and party-controlled : public: involves a host of interested individuals, what should happen in future, ongoing saga, bases remedy on considerations of public policy, structured and controlled by judge , pg. 197: how to reform: should stick to protecting plaintiffs from illegal injury, should leave policy making to elected policy makers. In rare cases where judges are needed to make policy, judges need checks and balances. Judges need an end game in every decree: pg.