Debra Walker v. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. The Housing Authority of the City of Dallas

How courts have described this case

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• the Fifth Circuit distinguished Bradley and instead referred to the general proposition, in Bowen, that laws should not be construed retroactively unless their language so requires
• “Nor are courts at liberty to redraft the obligations commanded by the decree absent consent of the parties.”
• “Courts of equity are no exception to the rule that disbursements from the United States Treasury first must be authorized by a congressional appropriation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).