Fargason v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the district court had retained 24 jurisdiction to enforce the settlement agreement where “the district court made exactly 25 the sort of express provision described by Kokkonen”
• invoking the relitigation exception to uphold the district court’s order enjoining a state action barred by res judicata
• stating that although the “[e]nforcement of a settlement agreement . . . ‘requires its own basis for jurisdic- tion’ . . . a basis for jurisdiction may be furnished ‘by separate provision (such as a provision ‘retaining jurisdiction’ over the settlement agreement
• affirming an injunction under the relitigation exception where the state 15 court would have considered claims that the Ninth Circuit decided in a previous appeal in the 16 federal case
• a court may enjoin state court proceedings where the district court has expressly retained jurisdiction to enforce and construe a settlement agreement
• original court’s jurisdiction over a settlement agreement deemed exclusive where the reviewing court identified a “retaining-jurisdiction” provision

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