Donovan v. Bassali
Donovan v. Bassali
Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Roziel Reyes filed a complaint with the United States Department of Housing and
Bassali responded to the Secretary’s petition, arguing that his attorneys misled him into accepting the consent order and that HUD should expunge from the internet the now-dismissed allegations. But he never filed a petition for review of the consent order, raising these objections, within 45 days as required under the Act. See 42 U.S.C. § 3612(0- What is more, the consent order contains an explicit waiver of Bassali’s right to petition for review, which prevents us from considering any of the objections. See ACORN v. Edgar, 99 F.3d 261, 262 (7th Cir. 1996). Because the Act provides that the clerk of the court of appeals “shall forthwith” enter a decree enforcing the order where no petition for review has been filed, 42 U.S.C. § 3612(n), HUD is entitled to enforcement of the consent order. And in any case, the consent order contains no promise to rid the internet of all references to the allegation, and Bassali’s complaint about his attorneys may be brought against them in a separate suit, but not in these proceedings.
Accordingly, we GRANT the petition and hereby ENFORCE the consent order.
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