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TWELVE JOHN DOES v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (1988) | 861 F.2d 295
TL;DR: A court refused to modify a prison population consent decree under Rule 60(b), finding the defendant's claimed "changed circumstances" were foreseeable and that it failed to make good faith compliance efforts, thus affirming a strict enforcement order.
Legal Significance: This case reinforces the high bar for modifying institutional reform consent decrees, holding that predictable changes, such as increased prison populations resulting from a party's own policy choices, do not justify relief from a court-ordered judgment.