Jeff D. Ex Rel. Belodoff v. Otter

How courts have described this case

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• quoting, Little v. City of || Seattle, 863 F.2d 681, 685 (9th Cir. 1988)
• “Because consent decrees have many of the attributes of ordinary contracts [and] ... should be construed basically as contracts, the doctrine of substantial compliance, or substantial performance, may be employed.”
• “A court considering termination of a consent decree in 8 light of performance of its specific terms ‘must also consider the general goals of the decree 9 which the terms were designed to accomplish.’”

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