consent judgment

noun

Law.

1. a judgment settled and agreed to by the parties to the action.

Example Sentences

In both cases, the administration’s intervention set the stage for a consent judgment, an agreement reached between the plaintiffs and the defendants as part of a settlement submitted to the judge hearing the case.

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Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the consent judgment proposed to U.S.

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Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors.

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Bran, the companies and the listed owners of the front companies are now subject to a consent judgment that prevents them from violating labor laws, including paying workers less than minimum wage, paying inadequate overtime costs and allowing children under 16 to work too many hours.

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District Judge Susie Morgan last year refused to dissolve the agreement, referred to as a consent judgment or consent decree.

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