Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest v. Doe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that agreements to arbitrate may be specifically enforceable under common law and thus directing that judgment on an oral settlement incorporate the parties’ agreement to arbitrate any remaining issues
• holding that agreements to arbitrate may be specifically enforceable under common law and thus directing that judgment on an oral settlement incorporate the parties' agreement to arbitrate any remaining issues
• finding that defendant had vested her attorney with apparent authority to bind her to final settlement with plaintiff
• looking at the parties’ objective manifestations to see if they agreed upon the meaning of a release clause and thus had a meeting of the minds
• attorneys can bind clients to settlement when cloaked in apparent authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).