United States Tenth Circuit

A court has inherent equitable power to extend the length of a consent decree, even if the decree has a termination clause, especially if the purpose of the decree has not been accomplished.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/09/2001
• Published 03/09/2001

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, McWILLIAMS, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Martha Matthews, (Michelle Cheng, on the brief), National Center for Youth Law, Oakland, CA, (Gregory Dresser, Morrison and Foerster, San Francisco, CA, on the brief), for Plaintiffs/Appellees., Annina M. Mitchell, Deputy Solicitor General, State of Utah, (Jan Graham, Attorney General, State of Utah, on the brief), Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants/Appellants.