James Dillard v. Starcon International, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “whether a ‘meeting of the minds’ occurred depends on the parties’ objective conduct, not their subjective beliefs”
• stating that “[w]hether a ‘meeting of the minds’ occurred depends on the parties’ objective conduct, not their subjective beliefs.”
• noting that certain provisions are not “material as a matter of law,” but rather depend on whether a party communicates during settlement negotiations that a specific term must be part of the agreement
• enforcing an agreement where a party made “only a superficial claim of involuntariness” and did not allege duress or coercion
• upholding magistrate judge’s enforcement of oral settlement agreement finding parties had agreed to all material terms and disputes over subsequent written agreement concerned immaterial items
• rejecting argument that confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses are always material settlement terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).