DeFalco v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “A party who relies on the authority of an attorney to compromise an action in his client’s absence deals with such an attorney at his own peril, and if the settlement is thereafter challenged, he has the burden of establishing that the attorney’s actions were, in fact, authorized.”
• “A party who relies on the authority of an attorney to compro- mise an action in his client’s absence deals with such an attorney at his own peril, and if the settlement is thereafter challenged, he has the burden of establishing that the attorney’s actions were, in fact, authorized.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).