Lawyers for the city of New Orleans who are asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to release the city from the federally mandated NOPD consent decree were grilled by a three-judge panel of the court on Monday (Aug. 5). In a contentious debate, lawyers for the city and the U.S. Department of Justice haggled over the details surrounding the decree, with the city asking the judges to vacate the decision and DOJ lawyers calling the city's claims "irrelevant.
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