United States v. Bp Amoco Oil Plc

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that we defer to “the district court’s carefully[ ]exercised informed discretion”
• affirming district court’s finding that consent decree was procedurally fair, because there was no evidence that the negotiations were not in good faith or at arms-length
• granting decree in part because “[n]othing in the record suggests that the government and the settling defendants were not negotiating in good faith and at arm’s length”
• “It is within the sound discretion of the trial court to decide whether an evidentiary hearing is necessary before ruling on a proposed consent decree. . . . Due process does not always require an evidentiary hearing, even where a significant interest is at stake.”
• examining procedural and substantive aspects of fairness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).