Saint Matthews Gas & Electric Shop, Inc. v. Verkamp Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that court's desire to protect the integrity of its decree \justifies any reasonable action taken by the court to secure compliance.\
• stating that courts are “not entitled to expand or contract the agreement of the parties as set forth in the consent decree”
• noting that the consent decree concededly had been intended to provide certain benefits to nonparties
• applying deferential de novo because \few persons are in a better position to understand the meaning of a consent decree than the district judge who oversaw and approved it\
• “Ensuring compliance with a prior order is an equitable goal which a court is empowered to pursue even absent a finding of contempt.”
• enforcing a consent decree that did not contain an express termination clause, and noting that \[t]he court is not entitled to expand or contract the agreement of the parties as set forth in the consent decree\

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