Hentschel v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[t]his court has always supported a strong public policy favoring the settlement of disputed claims without litigation”
• stating that “[t]his court has always supported a strong public policy favoring the settlement of disputed claims without litigation”
• restricting recovery of attorney fees to situations where party is defending conduct of another, not allegations of its own wrongdoing
• noting that a consent judgment implies no determination by the court of any issues in the case, and therefore a consent judgment should not be the basis for a collateral estoppel action, except in the rare case where it may be fairly said that the parties intended this effect
• noting that a consent judgment implies no determination by the court of any issues in the case, and therefore a consent judgment should not be the basis for a collateral estoppel action, except in the rare case where it may b,e fairly said that the parties intended this effect
• “This court has always supported a strong public policy favoring the settlement of disputed claims without litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).