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								Genzyme said Wednesday that it is on schedule to meet the November consent-decree deadlines for ceasing the final stage of production at its Allston, Mass., plant for products sold in the U.S. Genzyme Profit Soars as Operating Costs Decline Thomas Gryta 2010 
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								There's nothing wrong with that, except that Jackson confessed that "part of the inspiration for doing that is that I take mild offense at their reversal of my preliminary injunction in the consent-decree case." The Economics of the Microsoft Case, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2010 
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								Gates became a key consent-decree architect, spending hundreds of hours personally on the project. The Microsoft Mess 2008 
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								The DOJ's crusade received a major boost in 1984, when the Supreme Court — with O'Connor concurring — ruled in Firefighters Local Union v. Stotts that federal courts could not protect affirmative-action hiring gains from "last-hired first-fired" layoffs by disrupting a seniority system through a consent-decree modification. 
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								The DOJ's crusade received a major boost in 1984, when the Supreme Court — with O'Connor concurring — ruled in Firefighters Local Union v. Stotts that federal courts could not protect affirmative-action hiring gains from "last-hired first-fired" layoffs by disrupting a seniority system through a consent-decree modification. 
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								MSD has already completed about $400 million in consent-decree projects, some of which are green. 
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								- Genzyme is on schedule to meet the November consent-decree deadlines for ceasing fill/finish at its Allston plant for products sold in the United States. Genzyme Details Financial Recovery and Other Factors Driving Company’s Value - Yahoo! Finance 2010 
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								The public will have 30 days to comment on the approval of the consent-decree agreement by the two companies, which was approved by the commission 4-0. 
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