United States v. Western Electric Company, Inc. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Bellsouth Corporation, Bell Atlantic Corporation

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• noting that “a trial court has inherent power to control the sequence in which it hears matters on its calendar”
• noting that requests to relieve an enjoined party of an injunction’s constraints comes within Rule 60(b)(5) whereas requests to “tighten the decree in order to accomplish its intended result” fall within the court’s equitable discretion
• Modifications at the request of the enjoined party relieving it of the decree’s constraints “come within Rule 60(b)(5). . . .”
• “The power of a court of equity to modify a decree of injunctive relief . . . is long-established, broad, and flexible.” (quoting N.Y. State Ass’n for Retarded Child., Inc. v. Carey, 706 F.2d 956, 967 (2d Cir. 1983))

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