Boyer v. Florida

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “intricate questions of institutional structure ... are perhaps best decided by those with greater expertise than judges possess”
• holding that a consent decree must “spring[] from and serve[] to resolve the remaining dispute”
• explaining that it is “the parties’ consent [that] animates the legal force of a consent decree” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• rejecting modification of consent judgment for failure to show change in circumstances
• court has power to enforce a consent decree containing broader relief than it could have awarded after trial
• “The exercise of equity, however, does not permit a court to indulge a party’s discontent over the effects of its bargain”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).