Cate v. Stapleton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “where an injured plaintiff and one or more, but not all, defendant tort-feasors enter into a settlement agreement, the parties must promptly inform the court and the other parties to the action of the existence of the agreement and of its terms”
• \[t]he current approach is to validate Mary Carter agreements ... but to require that they be fully disclosed\
• secrecy is the essence of a Mary Carter agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).