Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) v. James R. Edgar in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois

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• “A party to a consent decree or other judgment entered by consent may not appeal unless it explicitly reserves the right to appeal.”
• “The purpose of a consent judgment is to resolve a dispute without further litigation, and so would be defeated or at least impaired by an appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).